Subject: RE: [External] : Re: bug#29430: bug#37447: 26.3; Commands on <delete> and <backspace>

From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 15:51:05 +0000

> > > > > > [C-M-delete] is problematic for MS Windows, no?
> > > > >
> > > > > Problematic in what sense?
> > > >
> > > > By default, at least, it's grabbed by Windows.
> > >
> > > But that hasn't changed just because Emacs now has a binding to
> > > that key, has it?  IOW, whatever problems Windows users had or didn't
> > > have before the change, they still either have or don't have.
> >
> > Yes, of course.  But without binding it by default
> > users are less likely to suffer the gotcha.
> 
> How so?  The probability of users using the key is independent of
> whether Emacs does or doesn't define a key binding for it.  Besides,
> who are those Windows users that don't know about Ctrl-Alt-Del
> sequence, and are likely to use it without understanding what they
> will get?

Can we agree to disagree, or must we also disagree
about such agreement?

Emacs advertising this as a default binding might
just incite some Emacs users to try to use it, in
Emacs.  That's all.  Not a big deal.  Certainly
they'll find out soon enough...