Re: Compctl fixes & a query

[Mark Borges <mdb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>> P Stephenson(PWS) wrote on Tue, 18 Jul 95 11:27:40 +0100:
PWS> A.Main@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> I think that, in the interests of consistency and name space
>> preservation, it would be a good idea to use ~+n rather than ~n, as
>> this reduces the number of characters that are treated specially.  ~+n
>> and ~-n can then be interpreted however pushd interprets +n and -n,
>> depending on whether PUSHD_MINUS is set or not.  What do people think
>> of this?

PWS> I'm not keen on this either, it's just too long for a short cut.
me neither. if it's hard to type, i'd venture people won't use it. so
why bother?

PWS> Furthermore, on this keyboard ~ and + are at opposite ends of the
PWS> keyboard.
mine too (a SUN type5 PC, which I suspect there are a lot around).

if it absolutely must go on ~+n, will there be any way for the user to
customize it?

  -mb-