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 19:47:27 +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 1110370131 26135 80.91.229.2 (9 Mar 2005 12:08:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 12:08:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Jari Aalto+mail.emacs" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 09 13:08:51 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8zzR-00021s-2Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:08:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D90E5-0000Bm-7p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 07:23:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D8zZG-0006RL-4Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 06:41:34 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D8zTx-0005mR-86 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 06:36:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8zMI-0004c0-7I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 06:28:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.207] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D8yit-0003kd-HP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 05:47:27 -0500 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 40so262339wri for ; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 02:47:27 -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=QG3s1Gb0OnmnynHFmv1a1Og838iOo8lj2Nk7854+j9Erb3Hr9TsABRKZxAOloH6/edpl/4FADDB5oIxdPiHmkm8D8qLilvQVgyNwgjtQklJU5czoR83zJJr8dIfNaekzcl0B7x7MJ70UjMX/ecUmbk3Y+4AXNi1ipF2NvujK9XI= Original-Received: by 10.54.19.5 with SMTP id 5mr686264wrs; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 02:47:27 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.54.19.70 with HTTP; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 02:47:27 -0800 (PST) Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: 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:34366 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34366 > My proposal for an C-x ` alternative would be C-x ? which appears to > be free at the moment. ? is a frequent character in all languages I > know, and so it should be more accessible than ` on most keyboards. > It also is connotated with "error" somewhat. That's really no better than C-x ` so what's the point (the "also connotated with error" thing is so tenuous as to be worthless)? Either we should change it to something good, or just leave it as is until the next release. [My personal binding for next-error is `C-x C-n', which just completely rocks; but Juri's suggestion is pretty good too.] -Miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.