From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#62892: proposal to extend mark-sexp to go forward and backward on command Date: Thu, 25 May 2023 18:32:56 -0400 Message-ID: References: <86jzxwuedr.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="11143"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: ruijie@netyu.xyz, 62892@debbugs.gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, drew.adams@oracle.com, juri@linkov.net To: Zachary Kanfer Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri May 26 00:34:19 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1q2JXG-0002iU-SF for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 26 May 2023 00:34:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1q2JX1-0007CI-Ul; Thu, 25 May 2023 18:34:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1q2JX0-0007C8-Rx for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 May 2023 18:34:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1q2JX0-0006kW-JQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 May 2023 18:34:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1q2JWz-0001P3-TI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 May 2023 18:34:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 25 May 2023 22:34:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 62892 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 62892-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B62892.16850539905328 (code B ref 62892); Thu, 25 May 2023 22:34:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 62892) by debbugs.gnu.org; 25 May 2023 22:33:10 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48343 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1q2JWA-0001Ns-33 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 25 May 2023 18:33:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:52180) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1q2JW3-0001ND-RS for 62892@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 25 May 2023 18:33:09 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1q2JVw-0006RL-JR; Thu, 25 May 2023 18:32:56 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=nOIqkF/LWMIw9ggTsSVl089fN0pjfgPdoz4OZus5plY=; b=Zu2Xk1KgH6j+ a3aM2JHHY+qExtuW81o7QexieNLGAyKByvCezB+OXwIrp2Sj7msC32cwnoPKnT1SqyNc9kz20RmtZ UUIozHBQg3VR/NsQp3sz3LEUBwB05+w2tWiCdn5r6JpofUZ+2V7kwkw0TaCfNO7LLWjKNgTN3qJH2 aOj2GwnvcwqRn2jcuBE/Kuss67Qt7YMZ41aMeFJQY224P8rm3nK3EupSNByNL2+9dRXxNAZU7XKxK fxplQA4zNpl+C4MKKTbS9xrf5RuNpOOaf2FACJQIadp280QxMD0/MBmp/e/sLyWRI9N7k4mlUCmrU j4IcbVlNqNO7dViaNMKoRw==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1q2JVw-0003xN-9w; Thu, 25 May 2023 18:32:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Zachary Kanfer on Tue, 23 May 2023 10:11:30 -0400) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:262392 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] I don't think we could find standard key bindings that are easy enough to be worth thinking about. > > Are you envisioning that users would bind some of these functions > > to keys themselves? > Yes. This is the main use-case I envisioned. This is not outright unreasonable. I still doubt they would interest many users, and I would not favor documenting these features fully in the Emacs Manual. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)