From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jay Belanger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Key-binding clash between gnus and calc Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 22:15:35 -0600 Message-ID: <87wtj0ov88.fsf@vh213602.truman.edu> References: <85acg5u9nl.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87lkzo1s34.fsf@vh213602.truman.edu> <87r79fuf4z.fsf@vh213602.truman.edu> <87u0e7i3us.fsf@vh213602.truman.edu> <87fyppi8cl.fsf@vh213602.truman.edu> <87mzjxdk66.fsf@jurta.org> <85iruk4qnf.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87br0co9ym.fsf@vh213602.truman.edu> <87zmnwmhlv.fsf@vh213602.truman.edu> Reply-To: belanger@truman.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1132719438 1163 80.91.229.2 (23 Nov 2005 04:17:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 04:17:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: belanger@truman.edu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 23 05:17:14 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Eem32-0007aA-PH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 05:15:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Eem32-0000Ft-51 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 23:15:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Eem2m-0000Ah-9f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 23:15:40 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Eem2i-00007q-TI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 23:15:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Eem2i-00007U-Lz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 23:15:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [24.116.0.230] (helo=S4.cableone.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Eem2i-0001Pc-FL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 23:15:36 -0500 Original-Received: from vh213602.truman.edu.truman.edu (unverified [24.117.225.205]) by S4.cableone.net (CableOne SMTP Service S4) with ESMTP id 37711969 for multiple; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 21:34:59 -0700 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Robert J. Chassell's message of "Wed, 23 Nov 2005 01:37:22 +0000 (UTC)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NotAscii: charset=us-ascii X-IP-stats: Incoming Last 0, First 90, in=34, out=0, spam=0 X-External-IP: 24.117.225.205 X-Abuse-Info: Send abuse complaints to abuse@cableone.net 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:46461 Archived-At: "Robert J. Chassell" writes: > You might have thought that I would have bright enough to check for > that, especially since it came up before. You would have been wrong. > > Same here. I don't have any good suggestions for a new keybinding, > except that it ought be as easy to type as the default for the past 15 > years and preferably better. Exactly. I've tried to narrow it down to some reasonable keybindings, but I'm only familiar with US keyboards, and I'm hoping that someone familiar with keyboards from more than one language will come along and narrow it down some more. > (Weirdly enough, nowadays I mostly use Calc mode for units' > conversion, like from feet to meters or BTUs to joules.) Why is that weird? Jay