[quake3] internationally accepted toggleconsole bind
Neil Toronto
ntoronto at cs.byu.edu
Fri Feb 2 11:58:13 EST 2007
Tony J. White wrote:
> I propose the addition of a new hardcoded bind that I hope would be more
> universally accepted: the key combination Shift-ESC (a.k.a. upper case
> Escape).
>
> I picked this key combo because of the comminality and special use of
> the keys. The Esc key is already a requirement of the game
> (e.g. closing menus). The common modifier/meta keys on modern keyboards
> are Alt(option on mac), Ctrl and Shift. Alt and Ctrl are not available
> since the key combinations Alt-Esc and Ctrl-Esc seem to have special
> window management functionality on Windows platforms. Shift-Esc seems
> to be generally accepted as an available key combo for applications to use
> on all of our supported platforms.
>
> Is anyone opposed to adding this? Patch follows.
>
Since it's *in addition* and ESC can't get used as a bind, I think it's
great - but it's not my baby. :) I always thought '~' was a little weird
anyway...
Neil
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