From: Mark Borges <mdb@cdc.noaa.gov>
To: ZSH mailing list <zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu>
Subject: Re: Compctl fixes & a query
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 08:29:11 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9507181429.AA25898@revelle.cdc.noaa.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3430.9507181027@pyro.swan.ac.uk>
>> P Stephenson(PWS) wrote on Tue, 18 Jul 95 11:27:40 +0100:
PWS> A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk wrote:
>> I think that, in the interests of consistency and name space
>> preservation, it would be a good idea to use ~+n rather than ~n, as
>> this reduces the number of characters that are treated specially. ~+n
>> and ~-n can then be interpreted however pushd interprets +n and -n,
>> depending on whether PUSHD_MINUS is set or not. What do people think
>> of this?
PWS> I'm not keen on this either, it's just too long for a short cut.
me neither. if it's hard to type, i'd venture people won't use it. so
why bother?
PWS> Furthermore, on this keyboard ~ and + are at opposite ends of the
PWS> keyboard.
mine too (a SUN type5 PC, which I suspect there are a lot around).
if it absolutely must go on ~+n, will there be any way for the user to
customize it?
-mb-
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1995-07-18 14:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1995-07-16 14:33 Zefram
1995-07-17 10:08 ` P.Stephenson
1995-07-17 17:17 ` Zefram
1995-07-17 18:17 ` Vinnie Shelton
1995-07-17 19:12 ` Zefram
1995-07-18 10:27 ` P.Stephenson
1995-07-18 14:29 ` Mark Borges [this message]
1995-07-18 21:31 ` Zefram
1995-07-17 13:15 ` Vinnie Shelton
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