Re: Rectangular regions

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>]

> Yes, IMO.  I can imagine this list has a preponderance of people that would
> miss the binding, though.  Personally, even though I have always written
> more elisp than the people immediately around me, I'm a C/C++ programmer,
> and mark-sexp doesn't do anything intuitively useful for me in c++-mode, so
> I've never internalized it.

In C (and friends), C-M-SPC in front of a semi-colon should select the
whole subsequent instruction.  And in front of a comma, it should select
the next argument.  Admittedly, it doesn't.

But that's what major modes relying on SMIE do, and I find it makes
C-M-SPC very useful in such major modes, even tho their syntax is
not Lispish.

Of course I'm biased: I made C-M-SPC do that in SMIE-based modes
specifically because I wanted such a thing (similarly with C-M-t to swap
two arguments).

> Even though I voted for C-x SPC, I would miss gud-break.

So would I, but so far it looks like the strongest contender.  Of course
gud-break is available as C-x C-a C-b, as well as a toolbar button, but
indeed C-x C-a C-b is pretty poor :-(

> Oooh.  s-SPC is free.  I shall bind it to s-SPC in my own .emacs anyhow.

Indeed, we could also use S-SPC: it's not available under ttys, but is
otherwise free.


        Stefan