From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jari Aalto Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Key binding M-g should really be goto-line (To M-g M-g or not to M-g) Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:28:44 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87y8cx4b3e.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110440588 18545 80.91.229.2 (10 Mar 2005 07:43:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 07:43:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 10 08:43:08 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D9IJM-0004ym-Em for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 08:42:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D9IYC-0002zI-2w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 02:57:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D9IXr-0002xx-9E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 02:57:23 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D9IUE-0002Hl-Tg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 02:53:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D9IUA-0002Dl-Fs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 02:53:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [193.229.0.35] (helo=fep31-app.kolumbus.fi) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D9I55-0001GU-AY; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 02:27:39 -0500 Original-Received: from bongo.cante.net ([81.197.3.110]) by fep31-app.kolumbus.fi with ESMTP id <20050310072737.VFPU15813.fep31-app.kolumbus.fi@bongo.cante.net>; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:27:37 +0200 Original-Received: from mx2.cante.net ([192.168.1.3]:37001 helo=cante.cante.net) by bongo.cante.net with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1D9I53-0003gR-H3; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:27:37 +0200 Original-Received: from jaalto by cante.cante.net with local (Exim 4.50) id 1D9I68-0002f1-IA; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:28:44 +0200 Original-To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) 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 X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34403 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34403 | >David Kastrup writes: | > no previous desire, not fitting the feature | > freeze. Is this a plot to distract people from releasing? | | IMO, it is a reasonable opportunity to DTRT before locking M-g down as | a single command-key only. Juri made interesting suggestings, and I would see it beneficial if future be taken into consideration as well. M-g prefix sounds good for future additions. M-g M-g for goto-line sounds fast enough, because it's same key. | > C-x ` completely sucks as a keybinding on many international | > keyboards. We need a new keybinding alternative at some point of | > time. But M-g is clean out, in my opinion. Really. | | Why? I think it is excellent. Good mnemonic. As keyboards all over the world differ greatly, any use of the exotic punctuation character can cause lot of trouble. These include: ` ½ § ^ ~ @ And even these are sometimes problematic on TTY connections (and even worse with modifiers) \ | Jari