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Re: Is there a way to change/remove hot keys in Mac OS X 10.8.x's Terminal? Or prompt to be sure to quit/close it?

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In article <alpine.OSX.2.11.1312301141360.8532@mako.ath.cx>, David Ritz
<dritz@mindspring.com> wrote:
> On Monday, 30 December 2013 12:25 -0500, 
>  in article <barmar-B8A8C8.12254030122013@news.eternal-september.org>, 
>  Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> > In article <alpine.OSX.2.11.1312301057250.24450@mako.ath.cx>,
> >  David Ritz <dritz@mindspring.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> My question is, what is Ant attempting to do, when he accidentally 
> >> uses the Mac universal close window (⌘W) and quit application (⌘Q)?  
> >> Is it something specific to Terminal?  Is he experiencing the 
> >> same
> 
> > He said it in the initial post: he thought he was in a Safari 
> > window, and was trying to close that. My guess is he just copied 
> > something from Safari to Terminal, so he no longer needed the 
> > browser window, and simply forgot to click back on that window to 
> > get rid of it.
> 
> There were no prior references to Safari, in this thread.

Not Safari specifically, but the original message said ...

     "when I meant to do that in my web browsers"

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Is there a way to change/remove hot keys in Mac OS X 10.8.x's Terminal? Or prompt to be sure to quit/close it? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2013-12-29 19:09 -0600
  Re: Is there a way to change/remove hot keys in Mac OS X 10.8.x's Terminal? Or prompt to be sure to quit/close it? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-12-30 04:10 +0000
    Re: Is there a way to change/remove hot keys in Mac OS X 10.8.x's Terminal? Or prompt to be sure to quit/close it? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2013-12-30 21:07 -0800
      Re: Is there a way to change/remove hot keys in Mac OS X 10.8.x's Terminal? Or prompt to be sure to quit/close it? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-12-31 18:57 +1300
        Re: Is there a way to change/remove hot keys in Mac OS X 10.8.x's Terminal? Or prompt to be sure to quit/close it? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2013-12-31 02:35 -0500
          Re: Is there a way to change/remove hot keys in Mac OS X 10.8.x's Terminal? Or prompt to be sure to quit/close it? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2013-12-31 07:27 -0800
            Re: Is there a way to change/remove hot keys in Mac OS X 10.8.x's Terminal? Or prompt to be sure to quit/close it? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-01-01 09:36 +1300
              Re: Is there a way to change/remove hot keys in Mac OS X 10.8.x's Terminal? Or prompt to be sure to quit/close it? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2013-12-31 15:46 -0800
                Re: Is there a way to change/remove hot keys in Mac OS X 10.8.x's Terminal? Or prompt to be sure to quit/close it? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-01-01 13:26 +1300
        Re: Is there a way to change/remove hot keys in Mac OS X 10.8.x's Terminal? Or prompt to be sure to quit/close it? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-12-31 15:23 +0000
        Re: Is there a way to change/remove hot keys in Mac OS Xs Terminal? Or prompt to be sure to quit/close it? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2013-12-31 07:26 -0800
          Re: Is there a way to change/remove hot keys in Mac OS Xs Terminal? Or prompt to be sure to quit/close it? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-01-01 09:38 +1300
      Re: Is there a way to change/remove hot keys in Mac OS X 10.8.x's Terminal? Or prompt to be sure to quit/close it? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-12-31 15:10 +0000
  Re: Is there a way to change/remove hot keys in Mac OS X 10.8.x's Terminal? Or prompt to be sure to quit/close it? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-12-29 21:08 -0800
    Re: Is there a way to change/remove hot keys in Mac OS X 10.8.x's Terminal? Or prompt to be sure to quit/close it? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-12-30 05:16 +0000
    Re: Is there a way to change/remove hot keys in Mac OS X 10.8.x's Terminal? Or prompt to be sure to quit/close it? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-12-30 00:30 -0500
    Re: Is there a way to change/remove hot keys in Mac OS X 10.8.x's Terminal? Or prompt to be sure to quit/close it? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-12-30 18:32 +1300
      Re: Is there a way to change/remove hot keys in Mac OS X 10.8.x's Terminal? Or prompt to be sure to quit/close it? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-12-29 22:48 -0700
    Re: Is there a way to change/remove hot keys in Mac OS X 10.8.x's Terminal? Or prompt to be sure to quit/close it? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2013-12-30 04:16 -0800
  Re: Is there a way to change/remove hot keys in Mac OS X 10.8.x's Terminal? Or prompt to be sure to quit/close it? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2013-12-30 10:06 -0500
    Re: Is there a way to change/remove hot keys in Mac OS X 10.8.x's Terminal? Or prompt to be sure to quit/close it? David Ritz <dritz@mindspring.com> - 2013-12-30 11:18 -0600
      Re: Is there a way to change/remove hot keys in Mac OS X 10.8.x's Terminal? Or prompt to be sure to quit/close it? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2013-12-30 12:25 -0500
        Re: Is there a way to change/remove hot keys in Mac OS X 10.8.x's Terminal? Or prompt to be sure to quit/close it? David Ritz <dritz@mindspring.com> - 2013-12-30 12:00 -0600
          Re: Is there a way to change/remove hot keys in Mac OS X 10.8.x's Terminal? Or prompt to be sure to quit/close it? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-12-31 09:04 +1300
          Re: Is there a way to change/remove hot keys in Mac OS X 10.8.x's Terminal? Or prompt to be sure to quit/close it? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2013-12-30 15:19 -0500
            Re: Is there a way to change/remove hot keys in Mac OS X 10.8.x's Terminal? Or prompt to be sure to quit/close it? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2013-12-30 17:34 -0800
        Re: Is there a way to change/remove hot keys in Mac OS X 10.8.x's Terminal? Or prompt to be sure to quit/close it? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2013-12-31 07:31 -0800
    Re: Is there a way to change/remove hot keys in Mac OS X 10.8.x's Terminal? Or prompt to be sure to quit/close it? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-01-01 00:30 -0800

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