From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Juanma Barranquero" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Binding F11 and F12 to buffer-switching and file-saving by default Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:51:13 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87veio3npx.fsf@localhost.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <8764ao3hxn.fsf@localhost.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1170208298 9788 80.91.229.12 (31 Jan 2007 01:51:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:51:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Jason Spiro" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 31 02:51:31 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HC4dF-0001N2-U9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:51:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HC4dF-0007fY-Ic for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:51:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HC4d4-0007fJ-DC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:51:18 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HC4d2-0007f7-2X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:51:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HC4d1-0007f4-TZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:51:15 -0500 Original-Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.244]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HC4d0-00066v-R4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:51:15 -0500 Original-Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b8so42126ana for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:51:14 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ibD1qcgYgaJq0bWyLyyENdz4OgiRSUERjnnfD7cVGZurAQlSSXAO/XVVvMSJezrO0iKcRsNjs06aWcc/8/ycfsQxA3ortAVqFsNOedbdQSY+uYyk5nJZy/i75zSatNpO7aSkAo22IHADe5KcKmxkPPa7ITkb4txJaPaIuC2kbIU= Original-Received: by 10.114.175.16 with SMTP id x16mr10913wae.1170208273562; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:51:13 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.115.93.4 with HTTP; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:51:13 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:65661 Archived-At: On 1/30/07, Jason Spiro wrote: > I suspect that one of the most popular uses of Emacs is programming. Yeah. That doesn't mean people use compile/recompile. I almost never use it, and I do use Emacs to do programming. > Yes. I wonder if people have ever studied the issue, for example, > usability researchers. A good question. > Yes, but as Stefan mentions in his reply to this message, we should at > least bind F11 and F12 to *something*. I don't agree. Free, simple keys are a relatively scarce resource. I'd rather keep them for users. /L/e/k/t/u