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From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: Gilaras Drakeson <gilaras@gmail.com>,
	Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Add lgrep/rgrep commands to Edit > Search submenu
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:40:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k58godey.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ab9dll12.fsf@jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:52:09 +0200")

Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:

>>   > Nice idea:
>>   >
>>   > M-g l => lgrep
>>   > M-g r => rgrep
>>
>> These are nice
>>
>>   > M-g f -> grep-find
>>   > M-g e -> grep
>>
>> But these don't seem very useful for most users given the 2 above, if
>> the user really really knows he wants to use these, they know how to do
>> their own bindings.  And we don't want to spend to use too many key
>> bindings for "grep" related things, there might be other useful things
>> to bind.
>
> I agree, we should keep more key prefixes for other useful things.
> So we can use only one prefix `M-g r' for all grep commands:
>
> M-g r e         grep
> M-g r l         lgrep
> M-g r r         rgrep
> M-g r f         grep-find

Those are only marginally shorter than M-x gr RET, M-x lg RET, M-x rg RET

I think we should leave this alone ....  Users can bind them as they like.

-- 
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk





  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-27 17:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-24 20:45 Add lgrep/rgrep commands to Edit > Search submenu Kim F. Storm
2009-01-24 21:09 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-01-25  0:57   ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-25  0:55 ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-25  1:04   ` Lennart Borgman
2009-01-25 18:14   ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-25 21:30     ` Lennart Borgman
2009-01-25 21:33     ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-25 18:30 ` Chong Yidong
2009-01-25 19:22   ` Kim F. Storm
2009-01-25 21:37     ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-25 22:43       ` Kim F. Storm
2009-01-26  1:54     ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-25 20:00   ` Drew Adams
2009-01-25 21:45     ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-26  4:09       ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-25 21:33   ` Lennart Borgman
2009-01-25 19:04 ` Gilaras Drakeson
2009-01-25 21:47   ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-25 22:49     ` Kim F. Storm
2009-01-26  0:42       ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-01-26 23:52         ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-27  0:48           ` Drew Adams
2009-01-27 17:40           ` Kim F. Storm [this message]
2009-01-26 23:48       ` Juri Linkov

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