Re: q for quit in plot windows

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Ethan Merritt wrote:
> On Friday 01 June 2007 09:18, Timothée Lecomte wrote:
> 
>>>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.
> 
> 
> ctrl+space is the default hotkey to switch between input modes
> on a multi-language desktop using uim/scim/skim etc.
> On my machines it toggles between English and Japanese character
> input. I think it would be unexpected to find yourself typing in a
> different language as a result of trying to raise the gnuplot
> console :-)
> 
> So in principle I am OK with simply choosing a different 
> "raise console" key sequence. But ctrl-<space> is not an option.

This is why I asked how to re-assign the bindings of internal built-ins.  If 
that possible, then Petr (or anyone) can simply put the redifinition in his 
gnuplot initialization file.

Dan