From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Suggestion: Mapping of M-g should be goto-line Date: 25 Mar 2004 17:42:51 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1080236772 26427 80.91.224.253 (25 Mar 2004 17:46:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 17:46:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Jari Aalto+mail.emacs" , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 25 18:46:03 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B6Yva-0006DB-00 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 18:46:02 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B6Yva-0005Ld-00 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 18:46:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B6Yrq-00084p-U6 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:42:10 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B6Yjj-0006W8-Es for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:33:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B6XwZ-00043U-I7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 11:43:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B6XwZ-00043L-3m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 11:42:59 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1B6Xrr-0003v7-E3; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 11:38:07 -0500 Original-To: no-spam@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:20917 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20917 no-spam@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes: > David Kastrup writes: > > > jari.aalto@poboxes.com (Jari Aalto+mail.emacs) writes: > > > > > The "de facto" situation for long has been that everybody > > > maps M-g to goto-line. People advice that in newsgroups, > > > because it is indeed the most logical key. > > > > Seconded. If no other binding can be found, we can override it in > > enriched text mode with a local binding, but as a global binding, > > goto-line is certainly much more generally useful. > > > BTW, Gnus rebinds M-g: > > M-g runs the command gnus-summary-rescan-group I see no problem with that: in the summary buffer you would not want to jump to a particular line, anyway. It is a generated buffer without external access that would make line numbers a useful metric. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum