From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Another menu question - , and Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 00:19:27 +0200 Message-ID: <42C07B6F.8060208@student.lu.se> References: <42C066BE.6010800@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119910611 4440 80.91.229.2 (27 Jun 2005 22:16:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 22:16:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 28 00:16:50 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dn1u4-0007Ck-Ti for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 00:16:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dn21n-0005S0-KM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 18:24:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dn21E-0005AI-QY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 18:23:56 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dn21A-00056J-1I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 18:23:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dn219-00054J-52 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 18:23:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.159] (helo=pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dn21C-0005AS-Fh; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 18:23:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.205.6) by pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 42B93717000FF14A; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 00:19:27 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:39698 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:39698 Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>Could not the actual keyboard shortcuts be used instead? >> >> > >You mean, C-w etc.? They invoke different functions. > > etc are not very helpful. Most people have a pc. I just searched Info to see if I could find out what could be for key. I found no information. Those names in the menus are not helpful to me at least. If there are some keyboard keys on some computers named like that and Emacs uses appropriate key bindings for those, why do they have to appear in the menus? Is not those C-w (and what more???) better candidates? Would it not be better for those wanting to learn Emacs?