[plt-scheme] the "[" as a parenthis charactor

From: Robby Findler (robby at cs.uchicago.edu)
Date: Sat Sep 23 00:21:44 EDT 2006

My fingers are pretty wired in to control-[ already and I'm not too  
worried about causing problems with keybinding standards :) but if  
you have some reasonably intuitive (untaken) suggestion, I'll add it.

Robby

On Sep 22, 2006, at 10:53 PM, Corey Sweeney wrote:

> Of course drscheme dosn't use ssh stdin/stdout :)
>
> I'm refering to the idea that we are creating a new keybinding  
> standard, and if it takes off, and people who edit using emacs want  
> to use it, they will have to choose a differnt key.  It'll  
> essentially make it harder for people to use drscheme some of the  
> time and emacs some of the time.  It dosn't matter much at the  
> moment, but I wanted to bring it up before people got used to  
> something.  (note: I for one use emacs for plt progams whenever I  
> can't load the graphics interface of drscheme. (like i'm in via  
> ssh, or I don't have X loaded on a webserver)
>
> Corey
>
> On 9/22/06, Richard Cobbe <cobbe at ccs.neu.edu> wrote: On Fri, Sep  
> 22, 2006 at 02:48:30PM -0500, Robby Findler wrote:
> > At Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:43:37 -0500, "Corey Sweeney" wrote:
>
> > > A note, something other then control-[ might be desirable as  
> control-[ is
> > > "escape".  If the rest of the world decides to follow along,  
> this can cause
> > > problems with editing from a terminal emulators/ssh, and  
> especially emacs as
> > > most of it's commands start with escape.  Alt-[ seems to be  
> already bound
> > > for something.
>
> Will this actually be a problem?
>
> As far as I know, one cannot run DrScheme within a terminal/emacs/ssh
> session.  More precisely: one can certainly type 'drscheme' within a
> terminal/emacs/ssh session.  Once DrScheme is started, however, the  
> user's
> keyboard input doesn't go through the terminal/ssh but rather  
> through the
> X/VNC/whatever connection.  Most of those protocols generally pass
> keystrokes like C-[ through without any difficulty.  (I'm ignoring  
> bindings
> of C-[ in your window manager and similar situations, as one cannot  
> expect
> apps to work around those keybindings.)
>
> If the *mzscheme* REPL did this, then problems could arise, but it  
> doesn't
> appear to treat C-[ specially.
>
> Richard
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