From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Will default key bindings spell the death of Emacs? Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 13:13:43 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3ED67422.7060305@math.ku.dk> <20030529.174743.98156433.Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054314977 8549 80.91.224.249 (30 May 2003 17:16:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 17:16:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri May 30 19:16:16 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19LnTO-0002A9-00 for ; Fri, 30 May 2003 19:15:22 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19Lnid-000864-00 for ; Fri, 30 May 2003 19:31:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19LnUg-0006Ul-NM for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 30 May 2003 13:16:42 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19LnTv-0006HI-7O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 May 2003 13:15:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19LnSd-0005dK-EG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 May 2003 13:14:35 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19LnRn-00054p-Vj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 May 2003 13:13:43 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.20) id 19LnRn-00024W-Ka; Fri, 30 May 2003 13:13:43 -0400 Original-To: Tak Ota In-reply-to: <20030529.174743.98156433.Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com> (message from Tak Ota on Thu, 29 May 2003 17:47:43 -0700 (PDT)) Original-cc: larsh@math.ku.dk Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:14498 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:14498 Is it worth considering as a long term development item to introduce a notion layer between key sequence and function? We already have a feature that does more or less that job: the feature of rebinding a command to another alternate command. For instance, a major mode, instead of rebinding C-n, could rebind next-line. This feature is relatively new, and it probably isn't used in most the places where using it would make sense. So if someone is interested in changing various modes to use this feature where appropriate, that would be good.