From: "Davis Herring" <herring@lanl.gov>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, 'Antoine Levitt' <antoine.levitt@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: Binding M-n and M-p toforward-paragraphandbackward-paragraphrespectively
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 20:13:50 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <60454.130.55.132.8.1302232430.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C62DFEA8E7741C5BCDD599C3C4493F5@us.oracle.com>
>> It just makes sense with the global idea that C- is for
>> atomic movements, and M- for group movement.
>
> That might be an argument for users to bind it, but that in itself is not
> an argument for Emacs to bind it by default. And it is certainly not an
> argument to bind it to some specific key (which one?).
FWIW, it is an argument for that last point: C-b is backward a character,
and M-b a word; C-a is beginning of line, and M-a of sentence; it makes
perfect sense for C-n to be next line and M-n to be next paragraph. That
doesn't mean we should do it, but that's why M-n makes sense for it.
Davis
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-08 3:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-07 13:57 Binding M-n and M-p to forward-paragraph and backward-paragraph respectively Deniz Dogan
2011-04-07 16:33 ` Binding M-n and M-p to forward-paragraph and backward-paragraphrespectively Drew Adams
2011-04-07 17:57 ` Sean Sieger
2011-04-07 18:15 ` Binding M-n and M-p to forward-paragraph andbackward-paragraphrespectively Drew Adams
2011-04-07 18:24 ` Sean Sieger
2011-04-07 18:28 ` Binding M-n and M-p to forward-paragraphandbackward-paragraphrespectively Drew Adams
2011-04-07 18:29 ` Sean Sieger
2011-04-07 20:31 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-04-07 20:53 ` Binding M-n and M-p toforward-paragraphandbackward-paragraphrespectively Drew Adams
2011-04-08 3:13 ` Davis Herring [this message]
2011-04-08 8:09 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-04-07 22:30 ` Binding M-n and M-p to forward-paragraphandbackward-paragraphrespectively David De La Harpe Golden
2011-04-08 10:19 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-04-08 21:48 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-09 1:40 ` Binding M-n and M-p to forward-paragraph and backward-paragraph respectively Stefan Monnier
2011-04-09 4:10 ` chad
2011-04-09 15:24 ` Binding M-n and M-p to forward-paragraph and backward-paragraphrespectively Drew Adams
2011-04-09 19:09 ` chad
2011-04-09 19:26 ` Drew Adams
2011-04-10 2:49 ` Leo
2011-04-10 3:10 ` chad
2011-04-10 5:37 ` Leo
2011-04-10 9:15 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-04-10 13:17 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-09 21:29 ` Davis Herring
2011-04-09 22:50 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-04-09 19:30 ` Binding M-n and M-p to forward-paragraph and backward-paragraph respectively Chong Yidong
2011-04-10 3:33 ` Stefan Monnier
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