From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Suggestion: Mapping of M-g should be goto-line Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 19:16:41 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040327001641.GD26429@fencepost> References: <861xnhfee8.fsf@avet.kvota.net> <86brmldvbd.fsf@avet.kvota.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1080347074 25388 80.91.224.253 (27 Mar 2004 00:24:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 00:24:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Jari Aalto , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 27 01:24:30 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 1B71cj-0007XE-00 for ; Sat, 27 Mar 2004 01:24:29 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B71cj-00018T-00 for ; Sat, 27 Mar 2004 01:24:29 +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 1B71c0-0000Ty-KO for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 19:23:44 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B71au-0007o6-A1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 19:22:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B71a9-0006h5-VK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 19:22:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B71a3-0006Zd-MM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 19:21:43 -0500 Original-Received: from miles by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1B71VB-0002yg-FJ; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 19:16:41 -0500 Original-To: David Kastrup Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Blat: Foop 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:20981 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20981 On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 10:29:08PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > > Really, if there are any more C-c C- C- C- key combinations, my hand > > will retire soon. The first proposal of "C-c c" prefix is much more > > friendly to wrists. > > I can't remember any such proposal, and it would not go through, > anyway, since C-c letter combinations are reserved for the user. In any case Jari's comment seems just plainly wrong -- it's _much_ easier to type multiple keystroke bindings if all keys in the sequence use the same modifier: e.g., to type C-c C-c C-c, just (1) hold down the the control key with one finger, and (2) hit `c' three times with the other finger. By contrast, e.g. the binding `C-c c c' is _harder_ to type, because the release of the control key is must be made precisely between the first and second keystrokes, which in my experience slows down typing considerably. [BTW, I don't like the `C-c C-c'-as-a-prefix suggestion though -- bindings shouldn't be used as prefixes in some modes and as non-prefixes in others.] -Miles -- o The existentialist, not having a pillow, goes everywhere with the book by Sullivan, _I am going to spit on your graves_.