From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ralf Angeli Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Key binding M-g should really be goto-line Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 02:00:57 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1109720969.656668.1814.nullmailer@Update.UU.SE> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1109725516 6560 80.91.229.2 (2 Mar 2005 01:05:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 01:05:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 02 02:05:16 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6IIY-0002ep-Lm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 02:05:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6IbD-0005LI-NC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:24:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D6IZr-0004Ta-S1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:23:04 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D6IZk-0004Pc-1Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:22:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6IZj-0004Nf-CY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:22:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1D6IF5-0003Tu-KA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:01:35 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1D6IAM-0001mz-45 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 01:56:42 +0100 Original-Received: from dialin-212-144-207-237.arcor-ip.net ([212.144.207.237]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 01:56:42 +0100 Original-Received: from angeli by dialin-212-144-207-237.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 01:56:42 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dialin-212-144-207-237.arcor-ip.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:33HxwmSl4FMjidTJD45ndVtRtdM= 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34024 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34024 * Alfred M. Szmidt (2005-03-02) writes: > FWIW, I fail to see why people want goto-line, I never used it, > facemenu-keymap atleast has a potential use already, and in the > future; whereas goto-line is just a crutch. And I fail to see the > fetish people have over keybidnings, specially M-g. One thing I did very soon after starting to use Emacs was to bind `M-g' to `goto-line'. I am using it often when dealing with patches generated with `diff' and wanting to look at the original source before applying a patch. -- Ralf