From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Key binding M-g should really be goto-line Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 13:40:04 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1109720969.656668.1814.nullmailer@Update.UU.SE> Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1109771109 3726 80.91.229.2 (2 Mar 2005 13:45:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 13:45:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 02 14:45:08 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6U7B-0002ql-7W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 14:42:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6UPw-0005Nl-Qq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 09:01:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D6UK7-0002Q8-Jg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 08:55:38 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D6UJz-0002LM-Op for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 08:55:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6UJx-0002IV-Uu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 08:55:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [69.168.108.225] (helo=rattlesnake.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D6U5A-0001WY-76 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 08:40:08 -0500 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.115) Wed, 2 Mar 2005 13:40:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-reply-to: <1109720969.656668.1814.nullmailer@Update.UU.SE> (ams@kemisten.nu) 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34074 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34074 In today's GNU Emacs CVS snapshot, Wed, 2005 Mar 2 11:50 UTC GNU Emacs 22.0.50.13 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.6.2) started with /usr/local/src/emacs/src/emacs -Q M-o is undefined; C-x C-g is undefined; C-x g runs the command insert-register-compatibility-binding. Alfred M. Szmidt wrote FWIW, I fail to see why people want goto-line, I never used it, ... This is yet another example of how people are different. I use goto-line frequently and cannot see working without it. Fifteen or eighteen years ago I bound it to C-c C-g and have used that binding ever since. There are a great many different actions people want to do, and not that many keybindings. This suggests that if goto-line is bound to a key chord by default, it perhaps should be bound to a potentially less used key chord than to a potentially more used key chord. -- Robert J. Chassell bob@rattlesnake.com GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc