From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Minor feature idea
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 22:49:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvd266uphs.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54C1803A.3020701@dancol.org> (Daniel Colascione's message of "Thu, 22 Jan 2015 14:56:58 -0800")
> I use C-a C-k too often to want to change the C-a binding. The existing
> movement function bindings are adequate if we want to use them.
Agreed.
> backward-sexp and forward-sexp feel like a better fit for navigation by
> path component. They're close enough already that I frequently use them
> to edit paths.
Agreed.
> Another option is to repurpose the word movement bindings. I don't know
> what to think of that. Is a filename a "word"?
No, words are smaller and have a well-defined meaning globally.
OTOH "sexp" navigation is meant to be adjusted based on the particular
syntax of the things being edited, so it fits very well with the idea of
moving by file-name component.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-23 3:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-22 22:09 Minor feature idea Richard Stallman
2015-01-22 22:56 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22 23:07 ` Drew Adams
2015-01-23 3:43 ` Richard Stallman
2015-01-23 3:49 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2015-01-23 9:37 ` David Kastrup
2015-01-23 20:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-23 16:41 ` Karl Fogel
2015-01-23 17:45 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2015-01-22 23:12 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-23 3:44 ` Richard Stallman
2015-01-23 13:38 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-01-24 1:10 ` Richard Stallman
2015-01-25 6:45 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2015-01-26 3:42 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] <<E1YEPwm-0004PK-Aw@fencepost.gnu.org>
2015-01-22 22:42 ` Drew Adams
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