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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: p.stephani2@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, mardani29@yahoo.es,
	stefankangas@gmail.com, juri@linkov.net
Subject: Re: Pushing the mark from a primitive like goto-char
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 00:26:41 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1kuU0P-0000f4-FP@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7a7c50cd-91dc-a818-f8a2-eacfb6243318@gmx.at> (message from martin rudalics on Tue, 29 Dec 2020 17:59:30 +0100)

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  >   But given
  > the recent discussions about stealing each other's bindings I wonder why
  > such a convenient prefix like M-g is not more exploited.  Maybe because
  > ESC on a terminal is not so convenient.

I don't think it is that.

There's nothing hard about typing M-g on the Linux ttys.
Does anyone actally use a terminal on which M-g requires
more than holding the Alt key?

I think the reason there is not much on the M-g prefix
is that we haven't seen many ideas of what to put in it.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-12-30  5:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <m1im8mgmb7.fsf.ref@yahoo.es>
2020-12-28 12:14 ` Pushing the mark from a primitive like goto-char Daniel Martín
2020-12-28 14:17   ` Philipp Stephani
2020-12-28 14:45     ` Daniel Martín
2020-12-28 14:49     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-28 14:56     ` Stefan Kangas
2020-12-28 15:32       ` Philipp Stephani
2020-12-28 16:49         ` martin rudalics
2020-12-28 17:15           ` Juri Linkov
2020-12-29  8:54             ` martin rudalics
2020-12-29 14:41               ` Stefan Kangas
2020-12-29 16:59                 ` martin rudalics
2020-12-29 17:56                   ` Drew Adams
2020-12-29 19:25                   ` Juri Linkov
2020-12-29 19:47                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-30  9:36                       ` Juri Linkov
2020-12-29 19:54                     ` Drew Adams
2020-12-30  9:41                       ` Juri Linkov
2020-12-30 17:32                         ` Drew Adams
2020-12-30  5:26                   ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2020-12-31  2:43                   ` Howard Melman
2021-01-05 19:06               ` Daniel Martín via "Emacs development discussions.
2021-01-05 19:17                 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-05 19:19                 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-05 19:52                   ` Philipp Stephani
2021-01-05 20:01                     ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-05 20:29                     ` Drew Adams
2021-01-06  5:12                       ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-05 19:29                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-05 19:53                   ` Philipp Stephani
2021-01-08 19:30                   ` Daniel Martín via "Emacs development discussions.
2021-01-05 19:56                 ` Philipp Stephani
2021-01-06 19:26                 ` Gabriel do Nascimento Ribeiro

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