[Xmonad] darcs patch: change keybinding for restart to Escape.

Spencer Janssen sjanssen at cse.unl.edu
Mon Jun 11 16:55:50 EDT 2007


On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:00:15 -0700
David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net> wrote:

> I don't know whether we want to change the default bindings here, but
> mod-Q I find highly annoying, in that it conflicts with one of my
> favorite emacs commands.  It seems like Escape should work as well
> here.
> 
> David
> 
> Mon Jun 11 08:56:28 PDT 2007  David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net>
>   * change keybinding for restart to Escape.
>   I get tired of the conflict with meta-Q in emacs, which causes me
> to keep accidentally restarting xmonad and losing my dynamic
> configuration.
> 

I think we'll stick with mod-q for now.  In general, it is very
difficult to find key combinations that don't offend emacs users ;).
Perhaps you want to use an alternate key for mod instead?


Cheers,
Spencer Janssen


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