From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joachim Nilsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Suggestion: Mapping of M-g should be goto-line Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 15:56:34 +0100 Organization: vmlinux:~/ Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <4062F322.10601@vmlinux.org> References: <4qsd3yd1.fsf@blue.sea.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1080229755 5571 80.91.224.253 (25 Mar 2004 15:49:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 15:49:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 25 16:49:00 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B6X6K-0003Vf-00 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:49:00 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B6X6J-0001FJ-00 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:48:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B6Wl0-0007WB-K4 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 10:26:58 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B6WiL-00071S-IG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 10:24:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B6Whn-0006rI-8s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 10:24:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [193.41.214.66] (helo=vmlinux.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.30) id 1B6WIW-0002Dm-Jv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 09:57:32 -0500 Original-Received: from crash.vmlinux.org ([213.214.225.58] helo=vmlinux.org ident=crash) by vmlinux.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B6WHa-0000aW-00; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 15:56:34 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031221 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: "Jari Aalto+mail.emacs" In-Reply-To: <4qsd3yd1.fsf@blue.sea.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.82.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:20910 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20910 On 03/25/04 13:27, Jari Aalto+mail.emacs wrote: > * 2004-03-25 David Kastrup gnu.org> mail.default.spool > | jari.aalto poboxes.com (Jari Aalto+mail.emacs) writes: > | > The "de facto" situation for long has been that everybody > | > maps M-g to goto-line. People advice that in newsgroups, > | > because it is indeed the most logical key. > | Seconded. If no other binding can be found, we can override it in > | enriched text mode with a local binding, but as a global binding, > | goto-line is certainly much more generally useful. > If possible, we really want M-g, because of "g", goto. Using any other > key would counter what people have been already using. And it should > be one key. If it were two keys, people would never use it. They > would map it right back to "M-g". I too agree that a keybinding for goto-line is useful. Like the original poster I used M-g as well, but since 21.3 I have a new setup where I use M-# instead. To me that is equally intuitive, but clashes with calc-dispatch -- so whatever is decided the risk of a key already being bound is always present in Emacs. Personally I've actually started getting used to "M-g *" for setting faces when I write in LaTeX. I find it very useful actually. My reason for having a keybinding at all for goto-line is that I find myself often supporting code over the telephone and I don't think we have a mode for that yet in Emacs. :) Regards /Joachim