From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: PJ Weisberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why? Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 17:25:49 -0700 Message-ID: References: <6F4054004B154CFB8E2753172D316C13@us.oracle.com> <83tycfc0l0.fsf@gnu.org> <392401A7079D400E86B791262598387D@us.oracle.com> <707AB93AD8B44FF38153911DD6D0E21A@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1306542365 18367 80.91.229.12 (28 May 2011 00:26:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 00:26:05 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 28 02:25:57 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QQ7Lo-0001UZ-QJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 May 2011 02:25:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59812 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QQ7Lo-0004gY-Ct for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 May 2011 20:25:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:39765) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QQ7Ll-0004aQ-Il for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 May 2011 20:25:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QQ7Lk-0008KW-Ni for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 May 2011 20:25:53 -0400 Original-Received: from smtpauth18.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net ([64.202.165.31]:44030) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QQ7Lk-0008KO-GF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 May 2011 20:25:52 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 20359 invoked from network); 28 May 2011 00:25:51 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (209.85.161.41) by smtpauth18.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (64.202.165.31) with ESMTP; 28 May 2011 00:25:51 -0000 Original-Received: by fxm18 with SMTP id 18so1964139fxm.0 for ; Fri, 27 May 2011 17:25:49 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.223.27.18 with SMTP id g18mr3006041fac.52.1306542349355; Fri, 27 May 2011 17:25:49 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.223.95.201 with HTTP; Fri, 27 May 2011 17:25:49 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <707AB93AD8B44FF38153911DD6D0E21A@us.oracle.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-Received-From: 64.202.165.31 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:139797 Archived-At: On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Drew Adams wrote: >> > Enabling (or disabling) as an option - is that impossible? >> >> Certainly not. =A0You can set the option like so: >> (global-set-key (kbd "") 'backward-char) > > Not at all what I meant, as you no doubt know. I know, but is it worse than "(setq backward-is-always-left t)"?