RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: Suggested experimental test

[Stephan Mueller <Stephan.Mueller@microsoft.com>]

Since opinions are explicitly being solicited, and since I have not encountered a particular point in my not-necessarily-comprehensive reading of this thread, I'll add one:

I use C-o (usually followed by C-n) many times a day, instead of <Enter>, in order to suppress re-indentation of the current line in cases where that re-indentation will be incorrect for my purposes**.

Needing to hit C-o twice would make the workaround more painful.  I expect I would end up rebinding in my .emacs to restore the current behaviour.

Also, I find myself nodding in agreement to the argument (apologies for not recalling who made it in this thread) that as a long-standing and fairly 'basic' binding, it is in use in other editors that try to be Emacs-like.  Changing the default behaviour here would introduce confusion to the world and confound muscle memory.

stephan();

** Of course, addressing the indentation issue would be good, but that perpetually remains a task for another day -- it's not a configurable behaviour, and will require me to do substantial research into cperl mode to understand more.  That said, even in cases not involving my oddly formatted perl, auto-indentation seems generally accurate enough to keep using, and inaccurate enough to need a workaround multiple times daily.

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From: Emacs-devel <emacs-devel-bounces+stephan=sbmueller.net@gnu.org> On Behalf Of Lars Ingebrigtsen
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2021 5:06 AM
To: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Suggested experimental test

Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> writes:

> Well... the suggested experiment does not remove C-o, it changes C-o
> in a way that is, I believe, painless. 

Sorry; I didn't read the patch carefully.  So it basically moves `C-o'
to `C-o C-o' (and makes the `C-o' prefix open for new commands)?

I don't use `C-o' myself, so I can't really say to what degree this
would be annoying or not for users.  Any `C-o' users who have an opinion
here?

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