From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "D. Goel" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Assignment of misc packages for emacs Date: 15 May 2002 03:44:20 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200205050534.g455YfF01634@aztec.santafe.edu> <5xbsbumexh.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <200205141941.g4EJfud15293@aztec.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1021448724 885 127.0.0.1 (15 May 2002 07:45:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 07:45:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 177tTP-0000EA-00 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 09:45:23 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 177tep-0005Q0-00 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 09:57:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 177tTR-0001lT-00; Wed, 15 May 2002 03:45:25 -0400 Original-Received: from ipr-mail.umd.edu ([128.8.86.132]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 177tSR-0001YA-00 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 03:44:23 -0400 Original-Received: from fosters.umd.edu (root@fosters.umd.edu [129.2.106.74]) by ipr-mail.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA01047 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 03:44:22 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from fosters.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fosters.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id DAA04704 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 03:44:22 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from deego@localhost) by fosters.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id DAA04700; Wed, 15 May 2002 03:44:21 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: fosters.umd.edu: deego set sender to deego@glue.umd.edu using -f In-Reply-To: <200205141941.g4EJfud15293@aztec.santafe.edu> Original-Lines: 40 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:3960 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3960 Richard Stallman writes: > Enhanced C-a: > > The first C-a always jumps to the beginning of the line (even if > the cursor is already there -- this is so keyboard macros can > consistenly depend on where C-a moves). > > I don't like this. RMS, i just wanted to point out that: once you are at the beginning of line already, invoking C-a yet once again does nothing at all, by default... so one might as well add funtionality to it---that it go to some place useful if it is already at the beg-of-line. In eshell, for instance, it seems esp. useful to have C-a toggle between: beg-of-line and beg-of-user-prompt.. eshell:~ ^^ ^^ viz. the two points underlined... anyways, sorry for the blab.. maybe you don't like it for good reason----users who are used to default behavior of C-a might get confused or inconvenienced: for instance, a user may, without looking at the screen, press C-a and expect to be at beg-of-line. But what if she was already at beg-of-line? Surprise.. emacs has taken her somewhere else!.. D --