From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: TAB for non-editing modes Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:22:08 +0200 Message-ID: <46F4D0B0.1090505@gmail.com> References: <200709220118.l8M1IZkd009116@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.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 1190449338 22173 80.91.229.12 (22 Sep 2007 08:22:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 08:22:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 22 10:22:14 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IZ0Ff-0000Xn-Lx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:22:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IZ0Fd-0007yo-8B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:22:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IZ0Fa-0007yO-1Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:22:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IZ0FY-0007y3-36 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:22:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IZ0FX-0007y0-U3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:22:03 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IZ0FX-00075f-FD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:22:03 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-133-189.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.133.189]:61681 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1IZ0FW-0002Y4-6W; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:22:02 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070728 Thunderbird/2.0.0.6 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <200709220118.l8M1IZkd009116@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000775-6, 2007-09-22), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.133.189 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1IZ0FW-0002Y4-6W. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1IZ0FW-0002Y4-6W dd36e86cedc42bf181fd9c94869e837e X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:79483 Archived-At: Dan Nicolaescu wrote: > For info, help, man, woman TAB does something like "goto the next > link". > > TAB does not do anything for pcvs, dired, log-view and maybe > others. It would be nice if TAB would do something for these modes > too. > A navigational semantic like info/help/man do seems that would be > intuitive (it should certainly be better than the current "error > because the buffer is read-only" behavior). > (similarly for backtab) > > Thoughts? Good and important idea. I think this is what most users would expect since both the modes you mention and programs like web browsers behaves this way.