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: Binding M-n and M-p to forward-paragraph and backward-paragraphrespectively Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 09:33:50 -0700 Message-ID: <35CCFF878F0B4C22B25E6A12CB3B2FCE@us.oracle.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1302194053 25305 80.91.229.12 (7 Apr 2011 16:34:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 16:34:13 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Deniz Dogan'" , "'Emacs-Devel devel'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 07 18:34:09 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7s9o-0001Op-48 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:34:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33339 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q7s9n-0008Sa-6J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:34:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60090 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q7s9c-0008Qp-Lc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:33:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7s9a-0003Eb-Uy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:33:56 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:45009) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7s9a-0003EJ-OG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:33:54 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com (rcsinet15.oracle.com [148.87.113.117]) by rcsinet10.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id p37GXpI8008906 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 7 Apr 2011 16:33:53 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt356.oracle.com (acsmt356.oracle.com [141.146.40.156]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id p37GXoqU015697 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 7 Apr 2011 16:33:51 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt020.oracle.com (abhmt020.oracle.com [141.146.116.29]) by acsmt356.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id p37GXo4x005430; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 11:33:50 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 09:33:49 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: Acv1K/abu2mlXMoATH2dz8gWXyzNHgAErkNw X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5994 X-Source-IP: acsmt356.oracle.com [141.146.40.156] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090204.4D9DE76F.009B:SCFSTAT5015188,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 148.87.113.121 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:138284 Archived-At: > I globally bind M-n and M-p to forward-paragraph and > backward-paragraph respectively. > Would it be okay to make these global bindings default? Not IMHO. ;-) This kind of request comes up periodically. The last time, AFAICT, Andreas proposed M-n/M-p for "the line-move-visual behaviour". Before that (bug #2887), `pull-line-(up|down)' was proposed for M-n/M-p. Before that, Adrian proposed having M-n/M-p move forwards/backwards among marks. And so on. Please leave Emacs alone in this regard and just bind the keys you want for your own use. There are so many possible commands to bind to such keys, and no real reason to impose any of them by default. One opinion.