What next?

[Matthew Miller]

On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 11:01:28AM -0400, John Thacker wrote:
> > The question is, why simple viewers need two keystrokes to quit the
> > program. Existing viewers like 'less', 'more', 'info' or 'xpdf' need
> > only a simple 'Q' (instead of C-Q).
> I would assume because the GNOME people would like consistency across
> the platform (that's what led to this discussion) and people feel it 
> would be annoying to put in extra keystrokes to shift more interactive 
> editors and other programs into a viewing mode where 'Q' would quit them.
> Having 'Q' for some programs and 'CTRL-Q' for others would be annoying,
> as this thread has shown.

Well, not to mention that it'd be horribly bad if hitting one key closed
your web browser.

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