From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Feature request: other-previous-window Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:28:44 +0900 Message-ID: <87sj8360lf.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <50AB9F22.4060200@gmail.com> <50ABA135.3050406@lanl.gov> <50ABA55B.30405@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1353472134 29245 80.91.229.3 (21 Nov 2012 04:28:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 04:28:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miguel Guedes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 21 05:29:05 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Tb1vt-0003oa-Bp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 05:29:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34061 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tb1vi-00080q-NN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:28:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46554) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tb1vg-00080V-05 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:28:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tb1vf-0003dV-0J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:28:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:42773) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tb1ve-0003c0-MI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:28:50 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 714E5970901; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:28:44 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 386CE1A56C5; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:28:44 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <50ABA55B.30405@gmail.com> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta32) "habanero" b0d40183ac79 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:155013 Archived-At: Miguel Guedes writes: > Why should the inverse of C-x o require twice as effort, when the effort > required should (IMHO) be exactly the same only having the inverse result? Of course, you could remove the "&optional" from the signature and then you'd need to do C-1 C-x o to move forward in the list, with more symmetric effort. ;-) Seriously, the reason is that keystrokes in the global map are a scarce resource. If you personally have some keystroke you never use, then C-x ( C-u - C-x 0 C-x ) M-x assign-kbd-macro-to-key RET is your friend.