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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Patch: enhanced mark navigation commands
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:10:25 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ablcom9a.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86pru96jgl.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:48:10 -0600")

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> I think it's possible to make this useful with navigation layers.
>
> Layers 0-9 reserved for char/word/paragraph/page/etc motion
> Layer 10: edits (what Adrian Robert's patch provides)
> Layer 11: tags (ctags, etags, etc.); function/variable definitions
> Layer 12: grep/diff/compile/occur points
> Layer 13: buffers (like cycle-buffer)
> Layer 14: Gnus articles or dired files or other bundles of information
> Layer 15: Gnus groups (or other aggregators for layer 14)
> Layer 16: Gnus topics (or other aggregators for layer 15)
>
> Layers 10 and 11 may have to be swapped.  We may think of more layers,
> and what I've listed above is just an idea.  The point is that we'll
> give the user a way to move back and forth between things that are
> interesting.

To be honest, it sounds maddeningly annoying...

-Miles

-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-05 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-05  5:12 Patch: enhanced mark navigation commands Adrian Robert
2008-03-05  6:19 ` Miles Bader
2008-03-05 12:23   ` paul r
2008-03-05  6:41 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-06  0:57   ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-06  1:47     ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-06  7:18       ` Drew Adams
2008-03-06 10:09       ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-09 21:55     ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-05 16:11 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-03-05 19:20   ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-05 19:48     ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-03-05 22:10       ` Miles Bader [this message]
2008-03-10 13:09         ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-03-10 22:34           ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-11 15:08             ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-03-06  0:54 ` Juri Linkov

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