From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd@md5i.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: C-x SPC : rectangle-mark-mode or gud-break?
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 17:56:54 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36dd5ae9-42d5-44c2-80e0-adb448d51823@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k3f0peh0.fsf@maru2.md5i.com>
> >> I know I am opening up a can of worms here, but I am going to argue that
> >> `C-x SPC' be changed back to `gud-break'.
> >
> > 1. `gud-break' should never have been given a global binding on prefix
> > `C-x'. It is fine for it to have a binding on `gud-key-prefix', i.e.,
> > `C-x C-a'. Why does it need a global binding? And if it really does,
> > for some reason, why sacrifice such an important global prefix key as
> > `C-x' for it?
>
> Nothing other than the fact that the keybinding has been around since at
> least Emacs 18.58 (the first version I regularly used).
Not all bad decisions are recent. ;-)
More seriously, whether or not it might have made some sense to spend
a global keymap key on this in the 1980s, it does not make sense to do
that now, IMO. What's wrong with using `gud-key-prefix' as the prefix
key for this?
> It's had a lot of time for people to get used to it.
And?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-20 1:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-19 19:48 C-x SPC : rectangle-mark-mode or gud-break? Michael Welsh Duggan
2013-12-19 21:41 ` Drew Adams
2013-12-20 0:12 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2013-12-20 1:56 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2013-12-20 2:34 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-12-20 3:35 ` Drew Adams
2013-12-20 5:07 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-01-15 18:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-15 18:46 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2014-01-15 23:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-16 0:39 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2014-01-16 4:14 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <CAM9Zgm0X=3PQYQvc6Pg6iDgRRKRs1bQ9wPU=gOP7xF9KdX40-w@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <jwv61pkrri0.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
2014-01-16 13:47 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2014-01-17 12:45 ` Bastien
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