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bug#30315: [PATCH] keyboard-escape-quit should give option not to delete
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#30315: [PATCH] keyboard-escape-quit should give option not to delete windows |
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Mon, 24 Jun 2019 17:28:03 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> > I've always found it a bit odd that ESC-ESC-ESC deletes windows, since I
> > think of it as telling Emacs to "stop doing whatever it is you're
> > doing".
>
> Its intended meaning is "Get me back to the default state of things."
> It's meant for people who don't know Emacs very well, to get out of
> any kind of temporary state that they might have got themselves into
> and don't know the command to get out of,
>
> Splitting into multiple windows is one such temporary state.
> So it is right that this gets back to the one-window state.
>
> However, I have no objection to adding this option, if it's
> useful enough to justify its added complexity.
It didn't seem like anybody was really enthusiastic about adding this
complication to this functionality, so I'm closing this bug report.
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