From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Key binding M-g should really be goto-line
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 23:34:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5is40wir5.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zmxcwkqs.fsf@orebokech.com> (Romain Francoise's message of "Wed, 09 Mar 2005 22:51:55 +0100")
Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com> writes:
> Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:
>
>> M-g could display a message:
>
>> Go to: line, M-g = line, char, file, next error, prev error, Other...
>
>> and have a keymap with the following key bindings:
>
>> M-g M-g - goto-line
>> M-g l - goto-line
>> M-g c - goto-char
>> M-g f - dired-goto-file
>> M-g n - next-error (goto-next-locus)
>> M-g M-n - next-error (goto-next-locus)
>> M-g p - previous-error
>> M-g M-p - previous-error
>
> This is a very good idea.
I am afraid that I have a hard time not to agree after thinking it
over.
> However, Dired users are probably used to M-g not being a prefix key
> since it's been bound to dired-goto-file in Dired-X for as long as I
> can remember (more than 11 years, says CVS).
Well, one could put M-g M-g on that in dired mode, but have M-g M-g
mean goto-line in most other modes.
It seems absurd to have dired-goto-file as a global binding.
> That being said, I'm very much in favor of this change--especially
> the bindings you suggest for next-error and previous-error.
Well, yes. It makes just too much sense to throw the idea out the
door.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-09 22:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-09 7:05 Key binding M-g should really be goto-line Juri Linkov
2005-03-09 7:53 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-09 8:32 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-03-10 6:28 ` Juri Linkov
2005-03-09 9:58 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-09 10:47 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-09 13:17 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-09 11:27 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-03-10 9:18 ` Piet van Oostrum
2005-03-10 10:16 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-10 10:47 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-03-10 12:21 ` M-g binding in Gnus (was: Key binding M-g should really be goto-line) Reiner Steib
2005-03-10 12:59 ` M-g binding in Gnus Kim F. Storm
2005-03-10 13:34 ` Reiner Steib
2005-03-10 15:18 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-03-10 2:03 ` Key binding M-g should really be goto-line Richard Stallman
2005-03-10 7:28 ` Key binding M-g should really be goto-line (To M-g M-g or not to M-g) Jari Aalto
2005-03-10 10:49 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-11 7:07 ` Jari Aalto
2005-03-09 21:51 ` Key binding M-g should really be goto-line Romain Francoise
2005-03-09 22:34 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-03-10 0:33 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-10 0:54 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-10 1:28 ` Johan Bockgård
2005-03-10 6:29 ` Juri Linkov
2005-03-10 7:24 ` Romain Francoise
2005-03-10 10:48 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-10 11:41 ` Romain Francoise
2005-03-10 13:23 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-03-10 15:19 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-03-18 10:27 ` Romain Francoise
2005-03-18 12:11 ` M-g suffixes. Was: " David Kastrup
2005-03-18 12:59 ` Romain Francoise
2005-03-18 13:17 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-18 13:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-18 18:59 ` Gaetan Leurent
2005-03-19 3:09 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-19 9:20 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-20 14:41 ` Romain Francoise
2005-03-21 1:18 ` Richard Stallman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-03-05 0:24 Key binding M-g should really be goto-line autolearn=noversion=3.0.2 autolearn=no version=3.0.2 Miles Bader
2005-03-05 0:49 ` Key binding M-g should really be goto-lineautolearn=noversion=3.0.2 " Drew Adams
2005-03-05 1:27 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-05 19:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-05 20:22 ` Key binding M-g should really be goto-line Johan Bockgård
2005-03-05 23:16 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-06 9:50 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-01 22:58 Jari Aalto+mail.emacs
2005-03-01 23:35 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-02 4:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-03-02 5:39 ` Nick Roberts
2005-03-02 6:24 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-02 8:31 ` Key binding M-g should really be goto-line autolearn=no version=3.0.2 Jari Aalto+mail.emacs
2005-03-02 12:17 ` Key binding M-g should really be goto-line autolearn=no version=3.0.2 " Jari Aalto+mail.linux
2005-03-02 13:42 ` Key binding M-g should really be goto-line Kim F. Storm
2005-03-01 23:49 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2005-03-02 1:00 ` Ralf Angeli
2005-03-02 1:14 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2005-03-02 8:08 ` Ralf Angeli
2005-03-02 1:19 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-02 13:40 ` Robert J. Chassell
2005-03-02 2:06 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-03 2:29 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-02 9:24 ` Kai Großjohann
2005-03-02 11:15 ` Jari Aalto+mail.emacs
2005-03-02 13:52 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2005-03-02 14:50 ` Josh Varner
2005-03-02 16:38 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2005-03-02 17:16 ` Reiner Steib
2005-03-02 17:52 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2005-03-02 19:01 ` Johan Bockgård
2005-03-02 20:23 ` Gaetan Leurent
2005-03-02 20:46 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-02 20:33 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2005-03-02 15:38 ` Jari Aalto
2005-03-03 2:29 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-03 7:19 ` Jari Aalto
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