Re: Bikeshedding go! Why is <M-f4> unbound?

[PJ Weisberg]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Drew Adams <address@hidden> wrote:

> Slippery slope.  It won't be long before someone will complain that library
> Foobar stomped on `M-f4', the universally recognized standard compulsory model
> key for deleting a window and quitting an app.

Which is exactly what started this thread.  The original question
could be rephrased to "Why does Emacs stomp on `Alt+F4', the
universally recognized standard compulsory model key for closing a
window, by binding it to some function that prints `<M-f4> is
undefined'?"

That's what Lennart meant when he said that Emacs binds Alt+F4 but
doesn't use it.  Other applications would pass it to Windows,
resulting in the window being closed.  Emacs overrides that behavior
by eating the event and printing an error message.

-PJ