Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> My proposal for an C-x ` alternative would be C-x ? which appears to >> be free at the moment. ? is a frequent character in all languages I >> know, and so it should be more accessible than ` on most keyboards. >> It also is connotated with "error" somewhat. > > That's really no better than C-x ` so what's the point (the "also > connotated with error" thing is so tenuous as to be worthless)?
As a user of an American keyboard, you would not understand. On almost all keyboards of the world, getting ` is at best tedious, at worst impossible or at least error-prone, usually yielding an accent instead of a backquote. For example, on a German keyboard you get ` by typing Shift-= SPC (where = means the American position for =), so the whole sequence becomes C-x Shift-= SPC. On a French keyboard, it is Right-Alt-7. And so on. > Either we should change it to something good, or just leave it as is > until the next release. For most languages of the world, ` is one heck of a nuisance. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
