From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neon Absentius Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Caveats on remapping keys Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 18:29:53 +0000 Message-ID: <20050309182953.GA11775@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> References: <112rvtvmgdkphb1@news.supernews.com> <396qviF5ua3feU1@individual.net> <112sspvaeqqhn63@news.supernews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110394375 10004 80.91.229.2 (9 Mar 2005 18:52:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 18:52:55 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 09 19:52:55 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D96FE-0004xI-Lb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 19:49:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D96Tx-0003Do-KC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 14:04:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D96Qs-0000oE-As for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 14:01:22 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D96Qq-0000ms-0t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 14:01:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D96N6-0007tC-Da for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:57:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.94.73.21] (helo=sdf.lonestar.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D95we-0008KA-Ly for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:30:08 -0500 Original-Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (IDENT:absent@otaku.freeshell.org [192.94.73.2]) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.13.1/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j29ITr25029696 for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 18:29:53 GMT Original-Received: (from absent@localhost) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.13.1/8.12.8/Submit) id j29ITrMX001204 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 18:29:53 GMT Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Followup-To: Neon Absentius , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <112sspvaeqqhn63@news.supernews.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:24699 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24699 On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 06:53:34PM -0900, Tim Johnson wrote: > Hello: > >You won't be able to use them to provide prefix arguments to commands. > >For example, `M-7 C-n' moves down 7 lines, but not if M-7 is bound > >to something other than digit-argument. > > Correct. However, on my keyboards, 'C-7 C-n' does the same and is > more natural to my hands. It would appear that rebinding 'M-7' wouldn't > be too awful, you think? > I find the M-5 (for arbitrary values of 5) binding very convenient when I want to evaluate an expression and put the result at point, M-7 M-: is easier to type than C-7 M-: similarly for commands like "shell-command-in-region" etc. I don't know how much of an inconvenience that would cause you though. > Thanks Kevin > tim -- Charity in capitalism is like urinating to extinguish a forest fire. -- Neon Absentius absent a.in.cirle sdf period lonestar period org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org