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: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 16:11:44 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040328211144.GC16537@fencepost> References: <86brmldvbd.fsf@avet.kvota.net> <20040327001641.GD26429@fencepost> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1080508412 8777 80.91.224.253 (28 Mar 2004 21:13:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 21:13:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Jari Aalto+mail.emacs" , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 28 23:13:27 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 1B7hax-0005JS-00 for ; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 23:13:27 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B7hax-0000I9-00 for ; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 23:13:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B7hab-00082r-21 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 16:13:05 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B7ha0-0007uR-0b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 16:12:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B7hZQ-0007bM-2w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 16:12:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B7hZP-0007am-Fe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 16:11:51 -0500 Original-Received: from miles by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1B7hZI-0005wd-9v; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 16:11:44 -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:21030 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:21030 On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 07:37:24PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > > | 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. > > > > This assumes, that one indeed uses two hand on keyboard. > > Not at all. I can easily type C-c C-c with the left hand. In > fact, even when I am typing with both hands, I use just the left hand > for C-c C-c and it is quite fast. Heh, good point -- indeed, C-c is one of the easiest modifier bidnings to type... -Miles -- `To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems' --Homer J. Simpson