Bug#426873: jed: no "cancel" option when accidentally exiting

Rafael Laboissiere rafael at debian.org
Fri Jun 1 09:41:35 UTC 2007


* G. Milde <g.milde at quantentunnel.de> [2007-06-01 09:02]:

> On 31.05.07, Jörg Sommer wrote:
> > Pigeon schrieb am Thu 31. May, 13:18 (+0100):
> > > Package: jed
> 
> > > I request that the "save file y/n" exit prompt should be altered to
> > > "y/n/cancel", with the "cancel" option returning you to the editor.
> 
> > I would refuse to add such an option, because the common way to cancel
> > actions is ctrl+g, which works with quit.
> 
> Maybe some documentation in a prominent place (say README.Debian) would help
> to make new users aware of the mechanism.
> 
> 
> 
>   In Jed, (almost all) actions can be aborted by pressing a configurable
>   "abort character" or calling the function kbd_quit(). The most used
>   default abort character is `Ctrl-G'. Some emulations use a different
>   default:
>     
>     CUA:      `Ctrl-D' (and, if activated, ESC, see cua_escape_cmd())
>     Wordstar: `Ctrl-6'

Good idea.  Could you commit the changes to SVN?

-- 
Rafael





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