From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: TAB for non-editing modes Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:23:51 +0200 Message-ID: <46F587E7.6090007@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190496249 16676 80.91.229.12 (22 Sep 2007 21:24:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 21:24:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 22 23:24:03 2007 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 4.50) id 1IZCSJ-0002tP-Fk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:24:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IZCSG-00039c-Ib for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:24:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IZCSC-00038l-PV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:23:56 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IZCSB-00037w-EP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:23:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IZCSB-00037r-7N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:23:55 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IZCSA-0002U9-Oq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:23:55 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-133-189.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.133.189]:60323 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1IZCS9-00042Y-7j; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:23:53 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070728 Thunderbird/2.0.0.6 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000775-6, 2007-09-22), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.133.189 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1IZCS9-00042Y-7j. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1IZCS9-00042Y-7j 6897f90378ed2d1a27f3a01c23d54fc5 X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:79534 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: >> Why not? I'd rather have TAB run dired-next-line instead of throwing >> an error "Buffer is read-only" as it does now. > > That is truly a waste of a key binding, IMO. `n' does that already. I have > nothing against giving `TAB' a useful binding in Dired, but there is no > sense duplicating `n' for that. From a usability point of view I think it is worth pointing out that TAB/S-TAB is very often used for "go to next/prev field". A new user would probably expect that kind of use in dired too.