From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: TAB for non-editing modes
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:22:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46F4D0B0.1090505@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200709220118.l8M1IZkd009116@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu>
Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
> For info, help, man, woman TAB does something like "goto the next
> link".
>
> TAB does not do anything for pcvs, dired, log-view and maybe
> others. It would be nice if TAB would do something for these modes
> too.
> A navigational semantic like info/help/man do seems that would be
> intuitive (it should certainly be better than the current "error
> because the buffer is read-only" behavior).
> (similarly for backtab)
>
> Thoughts?
Good and important idea. I think this is what most users would expect
since both the modes you mention and programs like web browsers behaves
this way.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-22 8:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-22 1:18 TAB for non-editing modes Dan Nicolaescu
2007-09-22 8:22 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2007-09-25 20:29 ` S-SPC for non-editing modes (was: TAB for non-editing modes) Juri Linkov
2007-09-25 21:14 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-25 21:59 ` S-SPC for non-editing modes Juri Linkov
2007-09-25 22:12 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-25 22:09 ` S-SPC for non-editing modes (was: TAB for non-editing modes) Andreas Schwab
2007-09-22 15:47 ` TAB for non-editing modes Richard Stallman
2007-09-22 16:35 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-09-22 19:01 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-22 21:23 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-09-22 21:40 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-22 21:51 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-09-22 22:16 ` bind commands that change buffer contents to `undefined' when read-only? Drew Adams
2007-09-23 0:37 ` bind commands that change buffer contents to `undefined' whenread-only? Drew Adams
2007-09-23 1:20 ` bind commands that change buffer contents to `undefined'whenread-only? Drew Adams
2007-09-23 1:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-23 2:18 ` bind commands that change buffer contents to `undefined' when read-only? Drew Adams
2007-09-23 18:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-23 20:42 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-24 1:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-24 2:02 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-24 15:24 ` Davis Herring
2007-09-24 16:12 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-24 17:38 ` Davis Herring
2007-09-24 21:49 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-24 18:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-25 10:44 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-25 18:00 ` bind commands that change buffer contents to `undefined' whenread-only? Drew Adams
2007-09-24 18:19 ` bind commands that change buffer contents to `undefined' when read-only? Richard Stallman
2007-09-25 14:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-22 22:44 ` TAB for non-editing modes Drew Adams
2007-09-23 14:48 ` Bastien
2007-09-23 23:59 ` Juri Linkov
2007-09-23 15:05 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-23 16:43 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-24 0:11 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-09-24 0:33 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-24 0:46 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-09-23 15:04 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-24 0:56 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-09-24 18:20 ` Richard Stallman
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