Re: q for quit in plot windows

[<tim...@en...>]

>> > I have a much simpler proposal.
>> > Let's get rid of the 'q' and ' ' built-ins altogether.
>> >
>> > Any usable window manager provides at least one button and/or hotkey
>> > to kill windows, and the local user is familiar with the conventions
>> > of his own desktop.  Why should we duplicate, badly, what is already
>> > present?
>>
>> Windows can be closed by Alt-F4.
>
> Exactly.  So there is no need for a badly-implemented 'q'.
>
>> I'm strictly against smashing ' '. It's the most useful hotkey! It does
>> much
>> more than a window manager can offer (it finds the parent terminal,
>> which
>> may be a gnuplot session, octave session, etc.!).
>
> But why the <space> character?????
> Can't this function, if it's necessary at all, be bound to something that
> you don't need for typing ordinary commands or labels?


Hey, interesting point here: the default bindings could all be
'ctrl'+'key' instead of just 'key'. That's easy to do and we could at
least get rid of this "ctrlq" option.

Timothée