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@ 2003-01-06 21:59 Tuomo Takkula
  2003-01-06 22:17 ` David Kastrup
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 19+ messages in thread
From: Tuomo Takkula @ 2003-01-06 21:59 UTC (permalink / raw)




        Hi.

The department I am working on just switched emacs from 20.xx?? to
21.2.1, with the new cool look. However, the keystrokes <Home> and
<End> changed their meaning as well, from 'go-to-beginning/end-of
document' to 'goto-begin/end-of line', respectively. So, I thought,
lets make an usability test and try to change that back.

So I look under options, find nothing useful, then I try under
'Cutomize Emacs' and find the good old mess that I remembered hating
so much: gazillions of customization groups which have all have in
common that they do not offer the option they promise to offer, with
more than 50% of them having names which I cannot associate any
meaning to (and I am a fairly seasoned emacs user). And of course, no
customization group called 'keystrokes' or such.

So, two questions:
- is there any chance that customization becomes more user friendly? A
good start wood be to avoid for instance names like 'Wp' for
customization groups. What the heck is 'Wp'?
- _is_ there a way to get to the old behaviour of <Home> and <End> via
custimization groups, and if so, where?


        Cheers
        Tuomo

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2003-01-06 21:59 usability issue Tuomo Takkula
2003-01-06 22:17 ` David Kastrup
2003-01-06 22:52   ` Alan Shutko
2003-01-07  0:37     ` Miles Bader
2003-01-08 12:42     ` Ehud Karni
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2003-01-11 12:40       ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-11 13:28         ` David Kastrup
2003-01-16  6:25           ` Andrew
2003-01-16  6:41             ` John Paul Wallington
2003-01-16 10:11               ` Andrew
2003-01-16 10:23                 ` David Kastrup
2003-01-16 10:44                   ` Andrew Brehaut
2003-01-16 11:02                     ` David Kastrup
2003-01-16 11:24                       ` Andrew Brehaut
2003-01-16 10:50                 ` John Paul Wallington
2003-01-16 11:34                   ` Colin Marquardt
2003-01-07 20:00   ` Tuomo Takkula
2003-01-06 22:43 ` Henrik Enberg
2003-01-07  1:02 ` Bruce Ingalls

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