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thaumasiotes a day ago

Nobody ever uses right alt even if it exists, but it's straightforward to hit F4 with your right hand.

Alt+F4 on Windows has the undesirable property that if you hit it several times, and it works, you'll close several different things. Ctrl-C in the terminal won't do this.

spauldo 16 hours ago | parent [-]

American Emacs-using touch typists use right ALT all the time. ALT-x prompts you for a command, ALT-q in most modes runs fill-paragraph, ALT-f moves the cursor forward by one word, etc.

thaumasiotes 15 hours ago | parent [-]

When I want alt in emacs I use C-[.

spauldo 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I suspect you're in the minority there.

thaumasiotes 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I can believe that.