From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Kévin Le Gouguec" <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, juri@linkov.net
Subject: Re: "C-x 5 5" vs "C-x 4 1" inconsistency
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 15:11:38 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ee8rrcat.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sfx83ydy.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Kévin Le Gouguec on Mon, 11 Oct 2021 07:48:25 +0200)
> From: Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com>
> Cc: juri@linkov.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 07:48:25 +0200
>
> > How about "C-x 4 x" and "C-x 5 x". where "x" stands for "eXecute"?
> > An alternative could be "C-x 4 RET" and "C-x 5 RET".
> >
> > Would any of these be acceptable?
>
> I don't mind x or RET in terms of mnemonics, but my clumsy fingers find
> them less ergonomic than C-x K K.
That's a peculiar argument. There's only one "C-x K K" combination
for any K, and yet we have more than a dozen commands starting with
"C-x 4" and similarly for "C-x 5". Does it mean that all but one of
them is not ergonomic?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-11 12:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-09 9:26 "C-x 5 5" vs "C-x 4 1" inconsistency Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-09 9:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-10 8:10 ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-10 9:03 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2021-10-10 9:16 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-10 10:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-10 13:28 ` Daniel Martín
2021-10-10 17:15 ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-10 18:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-10 19:02 ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-10 19:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-11 6:13 ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-10 23:32 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-11 2:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-11 5:48 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2021-10-11 12:11 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-10-11 13:18 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
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