From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'PJ Weisberg'" <pj@irregularexpressions.net>, <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?
Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 16:23:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <707AB93AD8B44FF38153911DD6D0E21A@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=rmTMxTBCJfj_tc1ofvH39MW9XOw@mail.gmail.com>
> > Enabling (or disabling) as an option - is that impossible?
>
> Certainly not. You can set the option like so:
> (global-set-key (kbd "<left>") 'backward-char)
Not at all what I meant, as you no doubt know.
> This discussion would be more productive if you brought in an example
> of a bug caused by this issue.
No one mentioned a bug, or even an "issue".
I mentioned `substitute-key-definition' and command remapping as a use case.
I did not say that this is a big deal. I said I was curious why we need to now
change these longstanding default key bindings. That's all. Still no answer,
but if no one else cares then it's OK that I not understand.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-27 23:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-27 20:40 `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why? Drew Adams
2011-05-27 20:48 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-05-27 21:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-27 22:08 ` Drew Adams
2011-05-28 0:19 ` Nix
2011-05-27 21:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-27 21:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-27 22:08 ` Drew Adams
2011-05-27 22:23 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-05-27 23:19 ` Drew Adams
2011-05-28 0:46 ` Mohsen BANAN
2011-05-28 1:53 ` Drew Adams
2011-05-28 2:24 ` Mohsen BANAN
2011-05-28 8:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-27 23:09 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-05-27 23:23 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2011-05-28 0:25 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-05-28 0:39 ` Drew Adams
2011-05-28 6:57 ` David Kastrup
2011-05-28 8:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-28 0:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-28 1:54 ` Drew Adams
2011-05-28 7:07 ` David Kastrup
2011-05-28 8:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-30 3:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-31 14:18 ` Davis Herring
2011-05-31 14:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-01 11:48 ` Andy Moreton
2011-06-01 13:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-01 23:26 ` Andy Moreton
2011-06-02 4:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-02 10:38 ` Andy Moreton
2011-06-02 11:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-02 12:59 ` Andy Moreton
2011-06-02 15:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-02 16:23 ` Andy Moreton
2011-06-02 17:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-02 21:42 ` Andy Moreton
2011-06-03 7:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-02 17:09 ` David Kastrup
2011-06-02 18:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-03 14:35 ` David Kastrup
2011-06-03 15:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-03 15:14 ` David Kastrup
2011-06-03 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-03 20:56 ` David Kastrup
2011-06-04 6:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-05 16:51 ` Ehud Karni
2011-06-05 17:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-05 17:19 ` Ehud Karni
2011-06-05 17:26 ` David Kastrup
2011-06-05 17:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-05 18:26 ` David Kastrup
2011-06-05 19:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-07 8:51 ` David Kastrup
2011-06-07 10:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-02 15:35 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-06-02 17:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-02 19:29 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-06-02 21:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-03 0:47 ` Kenichi Handa
2011-06-03 7:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-05 11:27 ` Kenichi Handa
2011-06-05 13:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-02 7:23 ` David Kastrup
2011-06-02 8:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
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