From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C-u prefix input (e.g., C-x f / set-fill-column) Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:45:09 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87fy0622ae.fsf@jurta.org> References: <18200.51135.134834.801609@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <87fy075dvs.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> <18200.59824.735120.351717@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> <5E6A6142-0579-497F-A17B-F326E6A93F92@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1192839560 24609 80.91.229.12 (20 Oct 2007 00:19:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:19:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ulm@gentoo.org, tassilo@member.fsf.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Reitter Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 20 02:19:20 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ij23j-0004Wy-KF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:19:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ij23c-0000Gx-1I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:19:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ij22y-0008Uz-MY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:18:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ij22w-0008U4-Ou for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:18:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ij22w-0008Tw-KG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:18:30 -0400 Original-Received: from gnome.kiev.sovam.com ([212.109.32.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ij22n-00022a-4E; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:18:21 -0400 Original-Received: from relay02.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.197]) by gnome.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Ij22k-0003Db-IG; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:18:18 +0300 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Ij22i-000BXt-Jb; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:18:17 +0300 In-Reply-To: <5E6A6142-0579-497F-A17B-F326E6A93F92@gmail.com> (David Reitter's message of "Fri\, 19 Oct 2007 19\:32\:50 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: ef6c50392af5ec65634338665e82f3c2 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 1644 [Oct 20 2007] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 25 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 6.x (1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:81271 Archived-At: >> So the point is that plain "C-x f" should produce an error because it >> is too similar to "C-x C-f". No default, and no further query. > > I think a further query would be appropriate. It is non-destructive, easy > to abort, and conveys the same message via the prompt. Maybe this is for newbies who don't know how to abort this prompt with C-g? > (It's too late to choose a different binding!) Late or not, a good and easy to remember key binding would be `C-x M-q'. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/