On Thursday 03 September 2015 06:45:55 Seeker wrote: > On 9/2/2015 3:25 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Wednesday 02 September 2015 09:09:45 Seeker wrote: > >> Unless you have set keyboard settings somewhere to have an excessively > >> slow repeat, > >> as opposed to a longer delay before the repeat kicks in, theoretically > >> it should not be > >> that hard to get 3 ^]s in 1 second. > >> > >> Or am I interpreting something incorrectly? > > > > Yes, you are. You are ignoring the part that said "disabled". > > > > Lisi > > Not ignoring, just questioning the need.
Maybe one day you'll be (relevantly) disabled. Then you'll see the problem. Lisi > > *If* like people are saying you can type 'exit' or hit 'Ctrl'+'D' to > exit then there are more > familiar and on easier way to exit. > > Some of this may have to be revisited later once more people actually > use it and have > that first hand exposure to what works and what doesn't. > > Maybe ^] was added as an additional exit method because Lennart uses > other stuff that > accepts that to exit and thought it would be nice for people who use > that method to be > able to exit the shell session the same way. > > If ^] is an emergency exit, that would assume it will work when you > can't type 'exit' and > 'Ctrl'+'D' doesn't work either. If it isn't, why would you need ^] 3 > times in a second. > If it is going to work when 'exit' and 'Ctrl'+'D' don't, it would need > to intercept the key > presses and decide whether to act on them or pass the to whatever is > running inside the > shell. If you intend those key presses to go to the program running in > the shell you don't > want the shell to act on it on the first key press and exit when what > you really wanted was > to exit the program running inside the shell. Same thing with any other > key combination, > you don't want the shell to exit if what you really wanted was for > something to happen > inside the shell. > > There is an argument for an easier key combination, but how do you make > it more > accessible for people who can't hold down a key combination long enough > for the repeat > to kick in? > > Later, Seeker