From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: key-binding for cycle-spacing Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 22:55:23 +0000 Message-ID: <20140131225523.GB3191@acm.acm> References: <20140129202810.GA3092@acm.acm> <87y51v93lw.fsf@thinkpad-t61.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1391209131 8770 80.91.229.3 (31 Jan 2014 22:58:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 22:58:51 +0000 (UTC) To: Glenn Morris , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 31 23:58:58 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W9N33-000356-M8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 23:58:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58746 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W9N33-0004mt-Cq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 17:58:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34271) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W9N2u-0004mV-O0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 17:58:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W9N2p-0005bV-1j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 17:58:48 -0500 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:61623 helo=mail.muc.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W9N2o-0005bP-OQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 17:58:42 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 97771 invoked by uid 3782); 31 Jan 2014 22:58:40 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p5492CFE0.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.146.207.224]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 23:58:39 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 11967 invoked by uid 1000); 31 Jan 2014 22:55:23 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87y51v93lw.fsf@thinkpad-t61.fritz.box> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 8.x X-Received-From: 193.149.48.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:169303 Archived-At: Hi, Tasillo. On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 11:40:59PM +0100, Tassilo Horn wrote: > Alan Mackenzie 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).