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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by bryanlarsen on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @02:12PM (#14403671)
On many editors ctrl-c is the copy key. Not a good key to exit on...
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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by kpil on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @02:35PM (#14403905)
It's the other way around - mapping copy to ctrl-c was a bit stupid...
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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by slrz on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @02:56PM (#14404097)
Yep. Apple got this one right with the Cmd key. Much saner than the context-dependent hijacking of the control key with its long-established conventional usage.
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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by bryanlarsen on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @04:07PM (#14404790)
Very true, but that argument was lost over 20 years ago.
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Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim by chrisweekly on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @02:55PM (#14404089)
CTL-C, or CMD-C?
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