From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: Mike Mattie <codermattie@gmail.com>,
emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Change the default binding of C-x C-e ?
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:35:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvsl1asng8.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080106151705.GA2986@muc.de> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Sun, 6 Jan 2008 15:17:05 +0000")
> It is sometimes useful whilst hacking lisp to evaluate an expression in
> the middle of a defun. You'd be surprised how often that happens.
> That's what C-x C-e is for, and I'd bet my entire life savings on the
> rest of the Emacs team agreeing here.
I'd agree, but I also think that maybe the OP has a point: C-x C-e when
used after an expression such as (defvar foo 1) should, just like C-M-x
force `foo' to be reset to 1.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-06 20:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-06 11:41 Change the default binding of C-x C-e ? Mike Mattie
2008-01-06 14:59 ` Leo
2008-01-06 15:14 ` Mike Mattie
2008-01-06 15:17 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-01-06 20:35 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-01-07 6:53 ` Andreas Röhler
2008-01-07 4:18 ` Richard Stallman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-01-06 17:21 Robert J. Chassell
2008-01-06 19:45 ` Tom Tromey
2008-01-07 0:15 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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