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: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 10:17:11 +0300 Message-ID: <83a8tljeko.fsf@gnu.org> References: <55D1043C.3030909@yandex.ru> <55D15899.2070105@cs.ucla.edu> <20150817121513.GA2634@acm.fritz.box> <55D21191.8070202@cs.ucla.edu> <20150817173551.GB2634@acm.fritz.box> <55D29EA6.2020009@cs.ucla.edu> <20150818103921.GA2262@acm.fritz.box> <55D36132.1020900@cs.ucla.edu> <20150818171715.GD2262@acm.fritz.box> <55D3869E.30302@cs.ucla.edu> <20150818204211.GF2262@acm.fritz.box> <55D3A641.7040409@cs.ucla.edu> <87bne4fc7s.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87bne3wzzg.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1440141466 22563 80.91.229.3 (21 Aug 2015 07:17:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 07:17:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, stephen@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 21 09:17:38 2015 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 1ZSga0-000216-Vy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2015 09:17:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40206 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZSga0-0003h4-3s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2015 03:17:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38857) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZSgZl-0003gP-Eq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2015 03:17:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZSgZi-0004O6-9f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2015 03:17:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout28.012.net.il ([80.179.55.184]:39223) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZSgZi-0004Nv-2k; Fri, 21 Aug 2015 03:17:18 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout28.012.net.il by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NTF00C0083DHJ00@mtaout28.012.net.il>; Fri, 21 Aug 2015 10:17:11 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NTF002BR88N4Y90@mtaout28.012.net.il>; Fri, 21 Aug 2015 10:17:11 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.184 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:189020 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 14:16:03 -0400 > Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Maybe we should bind the INSERT key to a new facility for easily > discoverable insertion of characters. If they fit, it could also > provide ways to insert other things -- buffers, files, the kill ring > and registers, effectively becoming a prefix key for all kinds of > insertion. > > This would make the command overwrite-mode harder to type. I don't > know how many users would mind that; perhaps we should conduct a poll. > INSERT INSERT could run overwrite-mode. If we do that, there should be a prominent indication that the INSERT "discovery" mode was activated. I frequently press that key by accident, when I actually want to press "Delete" or "Home" that are nearby.