From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rectangular regions Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 21:20:25 +0200 Message-ID: <8338niefba.fsf@gnu.org> References: <52707D17.6010801@dancol.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383160845 27173 80.91.229.3 (30 Oct 2013 19:20:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 19:20:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dancol@dancol.org, sdl.web@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 30 20:20:48 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VbbJv-0004Yh-Gh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 20:20:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54063 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VbbJu-0001b8-Le for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 15:20:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39708) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VbbJk-0001b2-AG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 15:20:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VbbJf-00066A-4J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 15:20:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:37945) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VbbJe-000661-I5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 15:20:30 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MVH00K00XMX2R00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 21:20:29 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MVH00J7RXQ4POB0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 21:20:29 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:164714 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 14:09:26 -0400 > Cc: Leo Liu , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > >> Maybe steal M-SPC from just-one-space since it is similar to C-SPC and > >> works well in gui and tty. We could fold just-one-space into > >> delete-horizontal-space somehow. > > I do agree that M-SPC would be "natural". Also there's a lot of overlap > between M-^, M-\ and M-SPC, so we could try and rely on that to make the > hijacking of M-SPC more bearable (I actually dislike all of M-SPC, M-\, > and M-^, and instead use a command that does "the reverse of M-j", > removing all whitespace and newlines, except for between 0 and > 2 depending on the surrounding chars, e.g. 0 between two closing > parens, but two between a "." and an capital letter). > > C-x r C-SPC is also very natural, tho it also suffers from being already > taken. Its advantage is that the existing command is already available > under C-x r SPC, so it's not that much of a loss for users. > The disadvantage is that it's a rather long-winded key-sequence. Why is everybody ignoring the "C-x SPC" suggestion?