From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: master 0695108 2/2: Revert "Add `r'/`l' grep command history commands" Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 13:44:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2073eeed-302f-48b7-afe0-c291e7b4fbb3@default> References: <20160403224658.6944.52006@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <83r3elo15s.fsf@gnu.org> <83egalnmtw.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1459802703 6198 80.91.229.3 (4 Apr 2016 20:45:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 20:45:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen , Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 04 22:44:50 2016 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 1anBMZ-00004r-HK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2016 22:44:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32890 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anBMZ-0006lC-2M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2016 16:44:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37795) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anBMU-0006k1-I6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2016 16:44:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anBMT-0006NJ-On for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2016 16:44:38 -0400 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:27178) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anBMP-0006Lv-Fz; Mon, 04 Apr 2016 16:44:33 -0400 Original-Received: from aserv0021.oracle.com (aserv0021.oracle.com [141.146.126.233]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id u34KiUmo014049 (version=TLSv1 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 4 Apr 2016 20:44:30 GMT Original-Received: from userv0122.oracle.com (userv0122.oracle.com [156.151.31.75]) by aserv0021.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id u34KiT9I020514 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 4 Apr 2016 20:44:29 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0011.oracle.com (abhmp0011.oracle.com [141.146.116.17]) by userv0122.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id u34KiRRf010340; Mon, 4 Apr 2016 20:44:28 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9 (901082) [OL 12.0.6744.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: aserv0021.oracle.com [141.146.126.233] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 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:202719 Archived-At: > 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'.