From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: master 0695108 2/2: Revert "Add `r'/`l' grep command history commands"
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 13:44:26 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2073eeed-302f-48b7-afe0-c291e7b4fbb3@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3shz1868o.fsf@gnus.org>
> I agree that they aren't very mnemonic bindings, but those are the
> bindings that all modes that I know of that has a history uses. I don't
> even know what they stand for. "Return"? "L..." uhm...
`l' stands for "last". It was in use forever. `r' was added later,
to be symmetric.
IIRC, I think the idea behind `r' was kind of "right", compared with
"left" (`l'). I don't know of another mnemonic that was touted for `r'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-04 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <E1amqnL-0001p7-2f@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2016-04-04 5:16 ` master 0695108 2/2: Revert "Add `r'/`l' grep command history commands" Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-04 5:18 ` John Wiegley
2016-04-04 15:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-04 15:57 ` Mark Oteiza
2016-04-04 17:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-04 18:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-04 20:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-04 20:32 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-04 20:44 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2016-04-04 19:51 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-04 23:14 ` John Wiegley
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