Re: RFC: On-line Content Filtering of directories

[Christoffer Torris Olsen <co deworks net>]

Mac OS X does the "escape for everything" approach, and it's a very 
usable, intuitive and welcome thing. I'd like to see that work in GNOME 
as well.

Chris

On 3. mai 2005, at 12.14, Maciej Katafiasz wrote:

> Dnia 03-05-2005, wto o godzinie 10:23 +0200, Xavier Bestel napisał:
> > > > I refuse to let the bizzare interface of some ancient editor affect 
> > > > the
> > > > design of a modern desktop (and I'm a emacs user). C-g is "find next
> > > > match" in most modern UIs, end of story.
> > >
> > > Eww, c'mon. I won't continue on that, however I fail to see how "C-g 
> > > as
> > > next match" is any more modern than "C-g is cancel".
> >
> > Maybe what he means is that "ESC as cancel" (and more generally the 
> > HIG)
> > is more modern than "C-g as cancel" (and more generally emacs' "user
> > interface").
>
> That doesn't mean however that we can't try to avoid choosing the exact
> keybinding you use to cancel incremental search in Emacs, from which is
> the feature primarly stolen, after all :). On a side note, ESC works
> somewhat differently than C-g, I'd like to see ESC working as global
> "drop everything on the floor" binding, but it doesn't (for example, 
> old
> "ESC doesn't cancel dialogues" thing).
>
> Hmm, I shall stop spamming people's boxes with my rants now :)
>
> Cheers,
> Maciej
>
> --
> Maciej Katafiasz <ml mathrick org>
>
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