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I really fail to see why we are having this discussion at all. There is Alt by
default and then there is the option to switch it to Control. If you switch it
to Control then the Alt and Control keys will simply be swapped. So in
Terminal you will just use Alt-C for SIGINT instead of Control-C and Control-C
will be used for copying text as everywhere else. It's like either you have
Control-C inverted for the whole system but normal in Terminal, or you have
Control-C inverted in Terminal and have the rest of the system the same as
other OSes. This is IMHO the sanest way of handling it instead of using
another modifier or even doing what the Windows cmd does.
I personally always switch it to Control because I have to use Windows at work
all day long and then switch to BeOS/Haiku for the rest of the day. So I like
having one consistent shortcut for the whole day. Generally seeing that
Windows and Linux, the operating systems where most of our future users will
come from, are using Control, I think it would be sensible to be consistent
with them and not stick with an inherited default coming from the very
beginning of BeOS. In the light of our vision to be void of unnecessary
complexities, having to find out that Alt is used as opposed to most of todays
personal computing world and then having to figure out how to switch it, just
doesn't really fit.
But that is probably just too much a matter of personal opinion and as it's
configurable, having it documented properly should be OK.
