From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Van Ly <van.ly@sdf.org>
Cc: 53158@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#53158: 28.0.90; TAB, RET key behave differently for Git-Log-View, Outline View mode
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2022 21:59:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h7ab8iql.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ec9db-f2ff-cad4-6dc6-65144748241a@SDF.ORG> (message from Van Ly on Mon, 10 Jan 2022 19:36:43 +0000 (UTC))
> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2022 19:36:43 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Van Ly <van.ly@sdf.org>
> cc: 53158@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > There's absolute no guarantee in Emacs that a key behaves the same in
> > tow different modes. Even if those two modes can be argued to be
> > similar in some sense.
> >
>
> Yes, I know. Emacs unboxes with unpleasant defaults.
Is that some new way of convincing the maintainers to be more amenable
to your opinions and suggestions? If so, it isn't working.
> I was pleasantly surprised TAB expands and collapses the bullet
> point in Outline View mode. If memory serves. I used to have to
> look up how to do that. What key to use. Maybe the TAB behavior
> was pulled from Org mode to Outline mode. Having the same key to
> expand, collapse the bullet point headline is the "Right thing to
> do(R)[TM]".
>
> Perhaps, there could be configuration infrastructure policy overlay
> for having bullet points expand, collapse with the same key. I would
> use that to page up/down View mode with B and SPC everywhere.
>
> possible expand, collapse keybindings for bullet point headline
> * TAB
> * RET
> * SPC
>
> CORRECTION
> > steps to reproduce in Git-Log-View mode
> > * open emacs by 'emacs -Q'
> > * goto emacs source directory
> * apply C-x v L runs the command vc-print-root-log
> > * goto the first line with a bullet point
> > * goto A and perform TAB, RET
A TAB as a means to cycle visibility could be a natural thing in
outline modes, but log-view-mode is not an outline mode, it's derived
from different parents.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-10 19:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-10 14:20 bug#53158: 28.0.90; TAB, RET key behave differently for Git-Log-View, Outline View mode Van Ly
2022-01-10 17:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-10 19:36 ` Van Ly
2022-01-10 19:52 ` Juri Linkov
2022-01-10 20:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-10 20:18 ` Juri Linkov
2022-01-10 20:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-13 9:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-13 9:32 ` Van Ly
2022-01-14 15:36 ` Howard Melman
2022-01-10 19:59 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-01-10 20:59 ` Van Ly
2022-01-11 3:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
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