[racket] closing tab in Unix?

From: John Clements (clements at brinckerhoff.org)
Date: Wed Oct 2 12:48:50 EDT 2013

On Sep 30, 2013, at 5:25 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 8:18 PM, John Clements
> <clements at brinckerhoff.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On Sep 28, 2013, at 9:22 PM, Manfred Lotz wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 13:55:34 -0700
>>> John Clements <clements at brinckerhoff.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I feel as though the answer must be howlingly obvious, but I'm
>>>> missing it somehow; how are UNIX-users supposed to close tabs without
>>>> the mouse? After quite a bit of exploration I see that on the Mac,
>>>> for instance, there are keybindings named "Close Tab"---but those
>>>> aren't in the list of available keybindings under UNIX.
>>>> 
>>>> Am I missing something obvious?
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> You mean a tab in DrRacket? If yes then: Ctrl-W
>> 
>> Nope, not bound for me under ubuntu. Further, there's no keybinding named "Close Tab", if I wanted to create it myself.
> 
> Do you have the emacs keybindings on?

Er... my understanding is that the emacs keybindings are always on, but are shadowed by the menu bindings, if those are enabled. So yes, I have ctrl-W and ctrl-Y for cut & pasted, Ctrl-X o changes windows... but there's no Ctrl-X k.

John



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