From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: basic question: going back to dired Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:03:50 +0200 Message-ID: <4885E8C6.6040500@gmail.com> References: <4884DC7F.6060406@gmail.com> <819feff4-76e3-4bf8-9ece-7b47f099efc2@j22g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <87mykaw8sb.fsf@nonospaz.fatphil.org> <4885D7FE.5050300@gmail.com> 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: ger.gmane.org 1216735583 13714 80.91.229.12 (22 Jul 2008 14:06:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:06:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Miles Bader To: Nikolaj Schumacher Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 22 16:07:11 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KLIVW-0001k1-Qj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:06:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42030 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLIUd-0003HC-L4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:05:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLITP-0002a9-MD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:04:15 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLITO-0002Zg-V0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:04:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59219 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLITO-0002Zb-PH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:04:14 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]:50612) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KLITO-0004zo-7y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:04:14 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-176.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.176]:59689 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KLITK-0005Gw-8E; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:04:10 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080722-0, 2008-07-22), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.176 X-ACL-Warn: Too high rate of unknown addresses received from you X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KLITK-0005Gw-8E. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1KLITK-0005Gw-8E c2d27d78d798b6f00b5ddf09d4f0131b X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:55801 Archived-At: Nikolaj Schumacher wrote: > Of course the term shortcuts is something reminiscent of GUI programs. > In a text editor menu entries like `compile' might have a shortcut, but > calling C-b a shortcut seems weird. Maybe, but having manual entries in the index for "Shortcut" and "Key Sequence" would perhaps help a little bit. > I don't think there even has to be a name for it ... Help says: "It is > bound to C-b, .", which sounds reasonable. So what problems could > a new user have? My imagination and experience says me that they could have trouble searching for things because of the terminology ;-) > Maybe custom should support keymaps, and M-x customize-keys could solve > that problem... That would be great yes.