From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Key binding M-g should really be goto-line autolearn=no version=3.0.2 Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 05:54:43 +0900 Message-ID: References: <01c51ee3$Blat.v2.4$8124a8c0@zahav.net.il> <20050302083113.YHKM20421.fep01-app.kolumbus.fi@cante.net> <1109763031.811246.2962.nullmailer@Update.UU.SE> <1109771670.202079.3332.nullmailer@Update.UU.SE> Reply-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1109797606 1789 80.91.229.2 (2 Mar 2005 21:06:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:06:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jari.aalto@cante.net, nickrob@snap.net.nz, emacs-devel@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 02 22:06:45 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6azk-0004yu-4d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 22:03:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6bIZ-0000tK-H2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 16:22:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D6bGa-0000Gh-4t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 16:20:24 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D6bF6-0008Ml-9a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 16:19:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6bF0-0008G3-Ta for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 16:18:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.204] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D6ark-0006Nx-Pk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 15:54:44 -0500 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 40so267193wri for ; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 12:54:44 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=MCcjApKeCChIYFuLq8YLDBwEbnQkAiy9og6OI3vTNteOzeOzxgUy04BMJIKlwQA4G6+2TVFTM2lrbRXNIkJ2b6s4w1382mQB9ExKIqNceuh4OHm0lb+PGux+Ok4+f9h8XjJsBaGie37O0QxSx6+bvJYxfo7vhzRg+bd6943/zZk= Original-Received: by 10.54.20.49 with SMTP id 49mr73832wrt; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 12:54:43 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.54.19.70 with HTTP; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 12:54:43 -0800 (PST) Original-To: ams@kemisten.nu In-Reply-To: <1109771670.202079.3332.nullmailer@Update.UU.SE> 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:34104 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34104 On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 14:54:30 +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > > C-u C-u C-l to recenter at a specific line (if it is just C-u C-u > > C-l, then prompt the user, if C-u C-u 100 C-l then recenter at > > line 100)? I think this is quite nice, makes sense keybinding > > wise. > > Two C-u's plus a number...? That seems pretty convoluted... > > Why do you think that this is convoluted? It isn't very hard to type. I didn't say it was hard to type -- it doesn't follow typical Emacs usage. That makes it hard to remember. It also just feels "weird" and kludgey (especially being put on C-l which is _already_ oddly overloaded). -Miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.