You took the time to reply to me after a week, so OK, I'll do you the same courtesy. > Actually since you mention it. GNOME 3 and Unity block basic readline ke

You took the time to reply to me after a week, so OK, I'll do you the same courtesy. > Actually since you mention it. GNOME 3 and Unity block basic readline keystrokes from working. I'd never even heard of "readline keystrokes" before. > Alt+Space has been a keystroke in bash since the 1980s, and they fucking override it. I am not sure what that does, but hey, I'm sorry you feel that way. But I have 2 counter-arguments. Neither will satisfy you, I realise, but hey, I feel it's important to say. #1: Bash has used this since the 1980s. According to Wikipedia, Bash was first released on June 8, 1989. Windows has used alt-Space for the window control menu since at least Windows 2.0 -- I used Windows 2. I didn't like it much but I used it. Windows 2.0 was released December 9, 1987. So, that's 18 months earlier. If that was a new bash feature in 1989 then Brian Fox used a keystroke that was already in use by a widely-used GUI. Bad plan. #2: Bash is on millions of Linux boxes, and Mac OS X from 10.3 to 10.15, and probably FreeBSD and maybe other BSDs. OTOH, we are talking about a basic Windows keystroke that's probably on billions of machines. At least 100 Windows boxes for every Linux box, I would guess. I am not arguing that this is right or proper or good. But on sheer numbers, the piece of software that used it first and which is used by 2 orders of magnitude more people gets to keep it, IMHO. Sorry, but either on numbers or on chronology, it's fairly clear, IMHO.