From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: TAB for non-editing modes
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:56:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200709240056.l8O0uRae017924@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1IZT0y-0002It-PG@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun\, 23 Sep 2007 11\:04\:56 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> Why not? I'd rather have TAB run dired-next-line instead of throwing
> an error "Buffer is read-only" as it does now.
>
> I don't see much of an advantage in making TAB synonymous with SPC.
AFAICT there are 4 operations in dired that have a semantic that means
something like "move to some some other element" (which is what modern
GUIs do with TAB when not used in an editing context):
dired-next-line
dired-next-dirline
dired-next-subdir
dired-next-marked-file
Which one do you think would be the best to bind to TAB? Can you see a
better binding?
Again, users nowadays expect TAB to do something useful. IMHO it would
be better for users for us to offer some functionality for TAB in
dired instead of doing nothing, that does not help anyone.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-24 0:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-22 1:18 TAB for non-editing modes Dan Nicolaescu
2007-09-22 8:22 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-09-25 20:29 ` S-SPC for non-editing modes (was: TAB for non-editing modes) Juri Linkov
2007-09-25 21:14 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-25 21:59 ` S-SPC for non-editing modes Juri Linkov
2007-09-25 22:12 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-25 22:09 ` S-SPC for non-editing modes (was: TAB for non-editing modes) Andreas Schwab
2007-09-22 15:47 ` TAB for non-editing modes Richard Stallman
2007-09-22 16:35 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-09-22 19:01 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-22 21:23 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-09-22 21:40 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-22 21:51 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-09-22 22:16 ` bind commands that change buffer contents to `undefined' when read-only? Drew Adams
2007-09-23 0:37 ` bind commands that change buffer contents to `undefined' whenread-only? Drew Adams
2007-09-23 1:20 ` bind commands that change buffer contents to `undefined'whenread-only? Drew Adams
2007-09-23 1:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-23 2:18 ` bind commands that change buffer contents to `undefined' when read-only? Drew Adams
2007-09-23 18:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-23 20:42 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-24 1:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-24 2:02 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-24 15:24 ` Davis Herring
2007-09-24 16:12 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-24 17:38 ` Davis Herring
2007-09-24 21:49 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-24 18:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-25 10:44 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-25 18:00 ` bind commands that change buffer contents to `undefined' whenread-only? Drew Adams
2007-09-24 18:19 ` bind commands that change buffer contents to `undefined' when read-only? Richard Stallman
2007-09-25 14:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-22 22:44 ` TAB for non-editing modes Drew Adams
2007-09-23 14:48 ` Bastien
2007-09-23 23:59 ` Juri Linkov
2007-09-23 15:05 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-23 16:43 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-24 0:11 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-09-24 0:33 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-24 0:46 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-09-23 15:04 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-24 0:56 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2007-09-24 18:20 ` Richard Stallman
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