From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [CVS] f7, f8 bound.. Date: 27 Aug 2002 10:56:58 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <5xptw4u1b9.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> References: <87lm6xiruh.fsf@computer.localdomain> <5xu1liwmu6.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <200208261526.g7QFQX624783@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1030435014 32375 127.0.0.1 (27 Aug 2002 07:56:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 07:56:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Stefan Monnier" , "D. Goel" , emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17jbDY-0008Pv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 09:56:52 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17jbil-0004kl-00 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 10:29:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17jbEs-00059j-00; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 03:58:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17jbDJ-0004lq-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 03:56:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17jbDG-0004lL-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 03:56:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.filanet.dk ([195.215.206.179]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17jbDG-0004lG-00; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 03:56:34 -0400 Original-Received: from kfs2.cua.dk.cua.dk (kfs2.local.filanet.dk [192.168.1.182]) by mail.filanet.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id AF7287C017; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 07:56:33 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: Miles Bader In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 28 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:6968 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:6968 Miles Bader writes: > "Stefan Monnier" writes: > > > I need to bind them to two adjacent function keys, but maybe we should > > > move them to f3 and f4 instead ? > > > > Please don't use Fn keys. It's very non-intuitive. > > Yeah [and on my happy-hacking keyboard, they're even hard to type]. > > I agree that `C-x e' is kind of a pain to type, but what's wrong with > `C-x (' & `C-x )', exactly? IMO, they are a pain to type as well! I don't see why we should hide an excellent feature like keyboard macros under bindings which requires you to use a total of 8 keystrokes just the define the macro. > > [I'd actually prefer to have a meta-shifted key to do what `C-x e' does, > then I could just hold down the meta-key on my keyboard and repeatedly > hit the command key.] M-f4 :-) -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk