From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: herring@lanl.gov
Cc: Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de>,
Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>,
emacs help <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Emacs-Devel devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: auto-indent in emacs
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:08:15 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200911302008.nAUK8Fwu016218@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57374.130.55.118.19.1259609973.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> (Davis Herring's message of "Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:39:33 -0800 (PST)")
"Davis Herring" <herring@lanl.gov> writes:
> > > > Why?
> > > > TAB does `indent-region' just fine
> > >
> > > Only with Transient Mark Mode.
> >
> > i.e. by default.
>
> Well, either `indent-region' is important enough, even in the presence of
> TAB/TMM, to get a keybinding (currently C-M-\), in which case it's
C-M-\ was there before t-m-m was the default.
t-m-m by default just made the binding not as useful as it used to be by
default, but people might still be using it.
TAB is a simple solution, it works by default.
We cannot provide generic solutions for all non-default options.
> worthwhile to consider whether certain keyboards have difficulty
> generating that event, or it's not, in which case we can just get rid of
> the keybinding altogether now that TMM is the default and have one more
> available for user customization (for those users on whose keyboards it is
> a convenient chord). Saying "it's a bad keybinding but we really don't
> want it anyway" strikes me as nonsensical.
I have not said or implied anything of the sort.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-30 20:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-30 15:10 auto-indent in emacs Kenneth Brun Nielsen
2009-11-30 15:22 ` Kenneth Brun Nielsen
2009-11-30 15:26 ` harven
2009-11-30 15:58 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-30 16:48 ` Sebastian Rose
2009-11-30 17:06 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-30 18:11 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-30 19:22 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-30 21:05 ` Sebastian Rose
2009-11-30 17:26 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-11-30 19:20 ` Davis Herring
2009-11-30 19:23 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-11-30 19:39 ` Davis Herring
2009-11-30 19:44 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-30 20:08 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
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