From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Zachary Kanfer <zkanfer@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: proposal: bind C-x r DEL to #'delete-rectangle
Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2016 22:17:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2wphgvl3x.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d0d3ee67-e744-41e6-a4c8-54b82bf57f90@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Sun, 9 Oct 2016 22:03:09 -0700 (PDT)")
>>>>> "DA" == Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> and it has had such a mix > since about forever. `C-x r' is not the place
>> to be defining alternative keys for the same command, IMHO. ...
>>
>> Well, fair enough. I'll just keep it in my init file, then.
DA> Just to be sure you know: I was giving my opinion - one opinion only. I
DA> don't speak for Emacs development, at all. You need not give up on your
DA> suggestion just because of my opinion. :-) Sorry if my reply gave you an
DA> impression that your suggestion was being shot down.
Just to give Drew some support here, I agree with his sentiment. Since C-x r
is a pretty crowded keyspace, it's probably better not to add more bindings to
it without a more compelling reason than "we could". I've found C-x r d to be
a handy enough mnemonic for deleting rectangles. But I can understand how C-x
r DEL would be nice, so the fact that you can define this in .emacs is, I
believe, the right answer.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-06 5:02 proposal: bind C-x r DEL to #'delete-rectangle Zachary Kanfer
2016-10-06 16:18 ` Drew Adams
2016-10-10 4:20 ` Zachary Kanfer
2016-10-10 5:03 ` Drew Adams
2016-10-10 5:17 ` John Wiegley [this message]
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