Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!decwrl!adobe!heaven!glenn From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: premature quitting with control-q Message-ID: <432@heaven.woodside.ca.us> Date: 24 Feb 91 20:56:31 GMT Reply-To: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn C. Reid) Organization: RightBrain Software, Woodside, CA Lines: 24 Someone posted recently about the fact that if they accidently hit control-q while editing in an emacs buffer or something, that the entire Terminal application quit, killing all the subprocesses. There is one way to combat this that does have side-effects in other applications, but it's easy to try: In Preferences (under 2.0 only), there is an icon that looks a bit like a menu with no text in it. Under this preference option, you can change command-key equivalents to menu commands. In particular, you can type "Quit" into the Command field and something like "Q" (shift-q) in the Key Alternative field. Then all your applications will require control-Q instead of control-q to quit. Or at least all the applications that are launched after you change this preference. It might be worth it to change the preference for Quit to something obscure, launch Terminal, then change the Preference back (or delete it) so it doesn't affect other applications. Glenn -- Glenn Reid RightBrain Software glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us NeXT/PostScript developers ..{adobe,next}!heaven!glenn 415-851-1785 (fax 851-1470) Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com