[quake3] internationally accepted toggleconsole bind

[Daniel Lord]

Sounds like a very reasonable approach to solving a thorny problem
with keyboard variations. But as Neil said, I am not the owner either.

On 2/2/07, Neil Toronto <ntoronto at cs.byu.edu> wrote:
> 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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