From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: key-binding for cycle-spacing
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 22:55:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140131225523.GB3191@acm.acm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y51v93lw.fsf@thinkpad-t61.fritz.box>
Hi, Tasillo.
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 11:40:59PM +0100, Tassilo Horn wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
> > Also, why do we need this function? Surely somebody adjusting her
> > whitespace at some place will know in advance whether she wants:
> > (a) 1 space;
> > (b) n spaces;
> > (c) no space,
> > and cycling through the possibilities to get there is an inefficient
> > waste of time.
> FWIW, I have the habit of doing M-SPC DEL when I want no space, and I
> use that sequence very frequently. M-SPC M-SPC is much more convenient
> in that case.
For no space, why don't you use `delete-horizontal-space', with its
standard binding of M-\? This surely beats M-SPC M-SPC, at least on an
English keyboard layout.
I use M-\ a lot in the minibuffer after making a typing mistake, but I
can't remember exactly why.
> Bye,
> Tassilo
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-31 22:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-29 17:15 key-binding for cycle-spacing Glenn Morris
2014-01-29 17:21 ` Bastien
2014-01-29 17:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-29 18:35 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-29 18:46 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-29 18:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-30 2:33 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-31 22:36 ` Tassilo Horn
2014-01-29 19:18 ` Teemu Likonen
2014-01-29 19:53 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-29 20:28 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-01-30 2:37 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-30 6:11 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-01-31 22:40 ` Tassilo Horn
2014-01-31 22:55 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2014-01-31 23:35 ` Tassilo Horn
2014-02-10 13:45 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2014-02-10 12:19 ` [PATCH] Make `cycle-spacing' behave more like `just-one-space' if called once Michal Nazarewicz
2014-03-27 14:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-03-28 16:29 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2014-01-29 20:30 ` key-binding for cycle-spacing Johan Bockgård
2014-01-30 2:32 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-30 14:09 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-30 15:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-30 23:23 ` Richard Stallman
2014-02-10 13:09 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2014-02-10 13:06 ` [PATCH] Make `cycle-spacing' behave more like `just-one-space' if colled once Michal Nazarewicz
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