From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Change the default binding of C-x C-e ? Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:35:04 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20080106034104.5a17f366@reforged> <20080106151705.GA2986@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199651723 27712 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2008 20:35:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 20:35:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Mike Mattie , emacs developers To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 06 21:35:44 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JBcDX-00077L-RL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 21:35:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBcDB-0004nH-2G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:35:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBcD6-0004nC-KU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:35:08 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBcD4-0004n0-8C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:35:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBcD3-0004mx-Vs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:35:06 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBcD3-0006XZ-RL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:35:05 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ah4FAAjKgEfO+K+E/2dsb2JhbACCCaRe X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.24,250,1196658000"; d="scan'208";a="12341938" Original-Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca ([65.39.196.238]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 06 Jan 2008 15:35:05 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([206.248.175.132]) by smtp.pppoe.ca (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ESMTP id MVP38205; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:35:05 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id B2F8A7F7C; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 15:35:04 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20080106151705.GA2986@muc.de> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Sun, 6 Jan 2008 15:17:05 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:86386 Archived-At: > 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