On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:02:33AM -0700, Christopher Stone wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Rahul Sundaram >> <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Then, you might as well as stop running any Linux distribution. Matthew >> > Garett code is in not optional in Linux. >> >> Does not compute. How can someone who is allegedly intelligent not >> understand the difference between typing ctrl-alt-backspace and rm? >> Both could potentially cause data loss, so why remove one and not the >> other? >> >> Maybe mister smarty can explain that to the list? > > Ctrl+alt+backspace is a single key away from various other commonly used > combinations - outside the emacs universe, a bunch of the gnome > shortcuts are ctrl+alt+something, and ctrl+backspace is "delete previous > word". When you have a key that's affected by modifiers, it doesn't seem > unreasonable for people to try hitting other modifiers as well to see > what they do. In my case, it was normally from flicking between > workspaces and then going to hit backspace before I'd fully released the > modifiers. > > rm -fr / is rather a large number of keystrokes away from pretty much > anything else you might want to do. so just change it to ctrl-alt-backspace-backspace. problem solved. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
