Re: q for quit in plot windows

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

On Friday 01 June 2007 10:39, Petr Mikulik wrote:
> 
> No, let us keep the <space> hotkey, and if somebody does not find it 
> convenient, he can rebind it. There was no complain or report on this issue 
> from any user.

This is just wrong. You cannot rebind it.

As I keep trying to point out, the current implementation of
'q' and ' ' bypasses the "bind" mechanism altogether, and cannot be
changed by the user.  This is bad. 

And people *do* complain. My work-around was to introduce the -ctrlq
option, which returns both ' ' and 'q' to being processed like any 
other key.  This is what you proposed with your "on/off" idea, right?
Let's make *that* the default.  No special treatment for the 'q' and
' ' keys unless the user specifically requests it.  There are several
patchsets on SourceForge exploring how the "raise console" operation
could be made a user option.


-- 
Ethan A Merritt