Re: Bind <space> to builtin_raise in mouse.c

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Wednesday 26 April 2006 11:54 am, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> But I can also see the argument of keeping 'q' as close because 
> then it remains consistent for gnuplot no matter what platform 
> you move to, say temporarily.

The consistency I want is among all windows currently on my screen,
whatever program they might belong to.  If tomorrow I use
some other computer or desktop where the "close window"
hotkey is <ctrl-z> rather than <alt-F4>, that's annoying
but at least it's a global rule.  If every application has
its own set of bindings, I am bound to type the wrong thing
to the wrong window and close something I didn't intend.

So if people want the ability to bind "q" to "quit" or
"close window", fine.  But it should not be hard-wired;
it should be just one more "bind" command.

Mea culpa. I was the one that added a special exception
X-resource to make the hard-wired key <ctrl-q> rather than <q>.
That was a hack rather than a proper fix.
Making it a configurable binding is a much cleaner solution.

-- 
Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle WA