From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Key binding M-g should really be goto-line Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 16:53:09 +0900 Message-ID: References: <87y8cx4b3e.fsf@jurta.org> 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 1110355616 17761 80.91.229.2 (9 Mar 2005 08:06:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 08:06:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Jari Aalto+mail.emacs" , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 09 09:06:56 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8wC7-00080M-LF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 09:05:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8wQk-0002J6-Sh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 03:20:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D8wPO-0001hP-Lv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 03:19:10 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D8wPG-0001dR-HR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 03:19:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8wPG-0001a2-6Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 03:19:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.197] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D8w0D-0007C2-SD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 02:53:09 -0500 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 40so247860wri for ; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 23:53:09 -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=d6unsrmEo6OhuqvZtXwhIUKBznUcnmHwmtfmk/aoIpLaN8OlVG1b5AMdbVVVgAxMkm+1KygqX4G6RAglLo2qNlpR6O6r5Rfwr0YNv2w93XwkCBRFcpaYi0+sbp9ewFdCa0LNOBHSZyi+fdvctQ1C6p9HYi+3EMOSsArGcM/SKn4= Original-Received: by 10.54.17.52 with SMTP id 52mr820820wrq; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 23:53:09 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.54.19.70 with HTTP; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 23:53:09 -0800 (PST) Original-To: Juri Linkov In-Reply-To: <87y8cx4b3e.fsf@jurta.org> 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34358 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34358 On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 09:05:33 +0200, Juri Linkov wrote: > 2. goto-line is not too frequent command to deserve the sole > M-g key. There are many other goto-related commands that could > share the same mnemonics and have the common M-g prefix key. Hmmm, not a bad idea. I especially like the fact that next-error &c could have a less annoying binding that C-x ` (also completely unintuitive). > Since goto-line is still the most frequent among them, it could > have also the most easily typed key binding `M-g M-g'. It would be good to also have a plain "g" binding for goto-line, for those people that use ESC instead of a real meta key -- it's much easier to hit `ESC g g' than `ESC g ESC g' (you've already done this for the other "meta" commands in the keymap). [I suppose it's people that use ESC that might object most strenuously to the prefix-key idea.] -Miles p.s. I have M-g bound to `fill-paragraph' myself... :-) -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.