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From: ram-ashwin@YALE.ARPA (Ashwin Ram)
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Subject: Re: What keys do you bind in place of ^s, ^q
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Date: Fri, 26-Jun-87 10:48:12 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 26 10:48:12 1987
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>    1.  Use ^\ whenever you would have used ^S and use ^^ when you would
>        have used ^Q.

I don't agree.  If one's terminal doesn't like ^S and ^Q, one can use
whatever else one pleases, but for the rest of us who have never experienced
any problems with ^S and ^Q, it doesn't make sense to give up TWO easy-to-use
and mnemonic control keys for highly terminal-dependent keys such as ^^
(which I don't like for the same reason as you don't like ^@ (below)).

>    2.  Bind M-space to set-mark, in addition to ^@, since many
>        systems/terminals are incapable of dealing with NUL.  Also ESC-space
>        is a much nicer key stroke sequence than CTRL-SHIFT-2 which is
>        required on many terminals.

Yeah, I hate ctrl-shift-2 too, but on most terminals, control-SPACE (which is
even easier than the two-keystroke sequence M-SPACE) emits a NUL.  I use
control-SPACE for set-mark and M-SPACE for exchange-point-and-mark.  Of
course, this is a matter of personal choice.

-- Ashwin.