From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Suggestion: Mapping of M-g should be goto-line Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 16:18:10 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040328211810.GE16537@fencepost> References: <4065A913.1060109@vmlinux.org> <4066D3F5.5030106@vmlinux.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1080508964 19810 80.91.224.253 (28 Mar 2004 21:22:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 21:22:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 28 23:22:37 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B7hjp-0005hv-00 for ; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 23:22:37 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B7hjp-0000OI-00 for ; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 23:22:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B7hjD-0005wC-NZ for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 16:21:59 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B7hgd-0004Xn-0e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 16:19:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B7hfr-0002z0-8Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 16:19:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B7hfq-0002xE-CT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 16:18:30 -0500 Original-Received: from miles by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1B7hfW-00062S-El; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 16:18:10 -0500 Original-To: Joachim Nilsson Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4066D3F5.5030106@vmlinux.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Blat: Foop X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:21032 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:21032 On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 03:32:37PM +0200, Joachim Nilsson wrote: > >I don't think it is possible to type M-A- characters on most > >keyboards. How would you do it? > > I'm not suggesting this is the best solution, but it actually works It's inappropriate to use this style for anything but optional short-cuts, because there _are_ many cases where meta/alt functionality is messed up; it's not at all rare under X to find someone has mapped all their `alt' modifiers to meta, or the reverse (though probably an emacs user would have done the former). -Miles -- In New York, most people don't have cars, so if you want to kill a person, you have to take the subway to their house. And sometimes on the way, the train is delayed and you get impatient, so you have to kill someone on the subway. [George Carlin]