From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: "whether the global keymap C-x 4 will be replaced by a command," Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 17:16:34 +0300 Message-ID: <83y2nklv7h.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83ft9woo68.fsf@gnu.org> <87wo377wxp.fsf_-_@mail.linkov.net> <83ft9um9op.fsf@gnu.org> <838sfmm54o.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3083"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, juri@linkov.net To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 15 16:17:21 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jviDp-0000c9-0O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 15 Jul 2020 16:17:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54262 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jviDo-0002kE-22 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 15 Jul 2020 10:17:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47696) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jviDE-000244-I5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jul 2020 10:16:44 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:58268) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jviDC-0001JA-NO; Wed, 15 Jul 2020 10:16:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1389 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jviD5-0004Wa-9p; Wed, 15 Jul 2020 10:16:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Wed, 15 Jul 2020 00:06:14 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:252968 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: juri@linkov.net, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 00:06:14 -0400 > > > The problem with C-u is actually my long-time lament. Making this > > "spread" to more commands doesn't sound like progress to me. > > It also affects `C-x RET c`, which is another standard prefix command. > I think we'll be better off making those prefix commands work well, than > keeping them half-working and then having to avoid introducing more > of them. What about the solution proposed by Richard: to program something special for these cases, such that the user won't see any difference?