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From: jari.aalto@poboxes.com (Jari Aalto+mail.emacs)
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Suggestion: Mapping of M-g should be goto-line
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 14:27:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4qsd3yd1.fsf@blue.sea.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x5fzbx9mq8.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "25 Mar 2004 12:42:39 +0100")

* 2004-03-25 David Kastrup <dak <AT> gnu.org> mail.default.spool
| jari.aalto <AT> poboxes.com (Jari Aalto+mail.emacs) writes:
| 
| >         The "de facto" situation for long has been that everybody
| >         maps M-g to goto-line. People advice that in newsgroups,
| >         because it is indeed the most logical key.
| 
| Seconded.  If no other binding can be found, we can override it in
| enriched text mode with a local binding, but as a global binding,
| goto-line is certainly much more generally useful.


If possible, we really want M-g, because of "g", goto. Using any other
key would counter what people have been already using. And it should
be one key.  If it were two keys, people would never use it. They
would map it right back to "M-g".

Jari

  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-25 12:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 99+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-25  6:11 Suggestion: Mapping of M-g should be goto-line Jari Aalto+mail.emacs
2004-03-25  7:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-25  9:10   ` John Wiegley
2004-03-25 15:06     ` Eric Hanchrow
2004-03-25 16:39       ` ams
2004-03-25 21:54         ` Stefan Monnier
2004-03-25 22:21           ` David Kastrup
2004-03-25 23:27             ` Stefan Monnier
2004-03-25 23:41               ` David Kastrup
2004-03-25 23:53                 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-03-26  0:50                   ` David Kastrup
2004-03-26  2:27                     ` Stefan Monnier
2004-03-26 11:14                       ` Kim F. Storm
2004-03-26 10:29                         ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-03-26 12:38                           ` Kim F. Storm
2004-03-26 13:36                             ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-03-26 14:25                             ` Stefan Monnier
2004-03-27  0:07                               ` Miles Bader
2004-03-27 14:53                                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-04-01  1:53                                   ` Miles Bader
2004-03-28  1:36                                 ` Richard Stallman
2004-03-26 15:27                       ` Per Abrahamsen
2004-03-26 17:49                         ` Alan Mackenzie
2004-03-26 15:19                   ` Per Abrahamsen
2004-03-26 16:40                     ` David Kastrup
2004-04-01 14:25                       ` Per Abrahamsen
2004-04-01 16:15                         ` David Kastrup
2004-03-25 16:26   ` Stefan Monnier
2004-03-26  0:19     ` Kim F. Storm
2004-03-26 16:53     ` Alan Mackenzie
2004-03-25  9:46 ` Danilo Segan
2004-03-25  9:54   ` Lucas
2004-03-25 10:21   ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-03-25 10:32   ` Jari Aalto+mail.linux
2004-03-25 11:23     ` Danilo Segan
2004-03-25 11:34       ` Lucas
2004-03-25 14:22         ` Vinicius Jose Latorre
2004-03-25 11:55       ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-03-25 12:30         ` Danilo Segan
2004-03-25 13:43           ` David Kastrup
2004-03-25 14:34             ` Danilo Segan
2004-03-29 20:34               ` Ted Lemon
2004-03-25 13:53           ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-03-25 14:49             ` Danilo Segan
2004-03-25 15:14               ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-03-25 16:08             ` Kim F. Storm
2004-03-25 16:53               ` Stefan Monnier
2004-03-25 18:56                 ` Per Abrahamsen
2004-03-25 19:39                   ` David Kastrup
2004-03-25 12:25       ` Jari Aalto+mail.linux
2004-03-25 12:55         ` Danilo Segan
2004-03-25 14:16           ` Jari Aalto
2004-03-25 16:28           ` David Kastrup
2004-03-25 17:28           ` Alan Shutko
2004-03-25 12:27       ` David Kastrup
2004-03-25 13:47         ` Danilo Segan
2004-03-25 15:18           ` David Kastrup
2004-03-25 13:35       ` Kim F. Storm
2004-03-25 13:53         ` Danilo Segan
2004-03-25 21:09           ` Juri Linkov
2004-03-27  5:52           ` Richard Stallman
2004-03-27 16:30             ` Joachim Nilsson
2004-03-26  0:11         ` Jari Aalto+mail.linux
2004-03-26 14:31           ` David Kastrup
2004-03-26 15:13             ` Stefan Monnier
2004-03-26 21:31             ` Jari Aalto
2004-03-26 21:29               ` David Kastrup
2004-03-27  0:16                 ` Miles Bader
2004-03-28 17:02                   ` Jari Aalto+mail.emacs
2004-03-28 17:37                     ` David Kastrup
2004-03-28 21:11                       ` Miles Bader
2004-03-28 21:10                     ` Miles Bader
2004-03-25 11:42 ` David Kastrup
2004-03-25 12:27   ` Jari Aalto+mail.emacs [this message]
2004-03-25 14:56     ` Joachim Nilsson
2004-03-25 18:03       ` David Kastrup
2004-03-25 19:10       ` Per Abrahamsen
2004-03-25 16:47   ` Kim F. Storm
2004-03-25 16:42     ` David Kastrup
2004-03-26  0:13       ` Kim F. Storm
2004-03-27  5:52   ` Richard Stallman
2004-03-27  8:14     ` Jérôme Marant
2004-03-27 11:00       ` David Kastrup
2004-03-27 13:50         ` Jérôme Marant
2004-03-27 10:46     ` David Kastrup
2004-03-28  4:25       ` Richard Stallman
2004-03-28 17:03         ` Kim F. Storm
2004-03-28 21:14           ` Miles Bader
2004-04-01 16:04           ` Per Abrahamsen
2004-04-01 17:35             ` David Kastrup
2004-03-27 16:17     ` Joachim Nilsson
2004-03-28  4:25       ` Richard Stallman
2004-03-28 13:32         ` Joachim Nilsson
2004-03-28 13:50           ` David Kastrup
2004-03-28 17:52             ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-03-28 17:29           ` Stefan Monnier
2004-03-28 21:18           ` Miles Bader
2004-03-29 20:56           ` Richard Stallman
2004-03-31  9:30 ` Kim F. Storm

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