From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: usability issue Date: 06 Jan 2003 23:17:26 +0100 Organization: T-Online Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1041963755 12821 80.91.224.249 (7 Jan 2003 18:22:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 18:22:35 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18VyMy-0003Jy-00 for ; Tue, 07 Jan 2003 19:22:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18VyN1-0006PC-08 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2003 13:22:35 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!colt.net!peernews3.colt.net!newsfeed.stueberl.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.com!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1041891446 03 4828 qFLUEcLSSGAyTw 030106 22:17:26 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-online.com X-Sender: 520018396234-0001@t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6,xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN;i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:108697 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:5223 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:5223 Tuomo Takkula writes: > The department I am working on just switched emacs from 20.xx?? to > 21.2.1, with the new cool look. However, the keystrokes and > 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. Why? Just use C-home and C-end. You don't need them that often, eh? > - _is_ there a way to get to the old behaviour of and via > custimization groups, and if so, where? Unlikely. Those are keystrokes. Just use (global-set-key [home] 'beginning-of-buffer) (global-set-key [end] 'end-of-buffer) in your .emacs file. That's all. But why you should want it when those functions are available on C-home and C-end escapes me. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum