Re: Firefox crippling (was: What next?)

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On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 10:11:10 -0400, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 07:07:02AM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
>^W is a Unix "delete previous word" keybinding.

I remember using that on TOPS-20 in the early 80's. Did it inherit the
command line hot keys from early Unix?

via emacs. Traditional unix never had 'delete word'. I suspect it may have
come via teco originally but lets not mention that too many times in case
it comes back to life ;)

Alan


	Can you really win by changing key bindings?

You might be able to do it with Firefox, but if you mess with my emacs keybinding it will be just another application that gets the

rpm --erase ...
./configure
make
make install

	treatment.

I use emacs on at least five different operating systems a day, it's bad enough dealing with ^H-backspace-delete problems, I don't need to see it changed. emacs is a solid application that really works, I find myself losing work with emacs about once every two years. you can do whatever you like with the half-working GUI "rpm --erase"ware that comes with RH, but don't mess with tools I need to get work done.

(For instance, I need emacs so I can make configuration changes in 20 seconds that my coworker needs 20 minutes to do through the GUI because the GUI screws things up and makes the machine go off the network.)


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