John5342 wrote:
NO! This means a lot of work for sysadmins around the world that is totally unnecessary. There is nothing wrong with the current Ctrl-Alt-Backspace default of enabled. Nothing. If there are any special packages/files to be created they need to be created only by the tiny Emacs community users. There is absolutely no sane reason to cause a massive impact to sysadmins worldwide by changing a global default that has been working successfully for decades and all for the benefit of a tiny few in the Emacs community. Emacs control sequences of Ctrl-Alt-End and Ctrl-Alt-\ cause problems for Emacs users because they can accidentally hit Ctrl-Alt-Backspace as these keystroke combinations are very close. But that doesn't give anybody the right to thrust a massive change on the whole Xorg community of tens of millions of installations just so a handful of Emacs users can be protected. What needs to happen is that the default needs to remain as it has always been, and the Emacs community needs to create xorg.conf entries for their users, since they are the only ones having any type of problem with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. That limits the impact to a tiny number of Emacs uses instead of the whole Xorg installations worldwide.I actually agree that Ctrl-Alt-Backspace should stay around but also respect that it is ultimately up to upstream to decide but here is a wacky solution that might just work. How about having a small package that automatically enables Ctrl-Alt-Backspace when installed (call it "ctrl-alt-backspace" for arguments sake). Sysadmins or people who just want it enabled can easily install it and even make it part of kickstart file for larger installations. Emacs users or anybody else who might accidentally hit that combo by accident can simply leave it uninstalled. Then we can all be happy and get on with more interesting arguments such as how quickly would i go blind if i just keep staring at the bottom of my mouse?
Regards, Gerry