From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Miles Bader'" <miles@gnu.org>, "'Juri Linkov'" <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: 'Emacs-Devel devel' <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: have cake will eat, eat cake will have - krazy key koncept kontroversy
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:34:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <666EFBA8E42040E5B68F2C80CC8FEFD7@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buo1vmwzn1w.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com>
> Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:
> >> 11. WDOT? Is this a good idea in general or not? If so,
> >> do you have a good idea for an implementation of #9?
> >
> > Cua-mode uses a short delay
> > (`cua-prefix-override-inhibit-delay') to decide
> > between interpreting a key as a prefix key or using its
> > own binding.
>
> Note that this sort of test is notoriously flaky, and should only be
> used if there's no other choice. It's far, far, better, to
> simply avoid the ambiguity in the first place.
In addition to Miles's point (orthogonal to it):
It's good to consider multiple possible implementations. For the subject at
hand, however, I don't think such a delay would be helpful.
IIUC, in CUA mode a delay distinguishes `C-x <delay> C-f', as cut followed by
forward-char, from `C-x C-f' as find-file.
But the discussion is about repeating the prefix key. If `C-x' for CUA were some
repeatable action (e.g. shrink the window) instead of cut, then to repeatedly
act you would need to do `C-x <delay> C-x C-x C-x' (or maybe even `C-x <delay>
C-x <delay> C-x...'; dunno).
If you're going to do that, you might as well use the approach I suggested, and
simply hit `C-x' twice: `C-x C-x' is about as easy as `C-x <delay>', especially
when repetition is involved: `C-x C-x C-x' (hold pressed) vs `C-x <delay> C-x'
(or perhaps `C-x <delay> C-x <delay>').
Anyway, I'm glad you mentioned this alternative approach. The more the merrier.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-28 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-27 1:36 have cake will eat, eat cake will have - krazy key koncept kontroversy Drew Adams
2009-08-27 17:58 ` Andrey Paramonov
2009-08-27 20:41 ` have cake will eat, eatcake " Drew Adams
2009-08-28 6:35 ` Андрей Парамонов
2009-08-28 9:09 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-08-28 9:16 ` Андрей Парамонов
2009-08-28 9:35 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-08-28 15:34 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-28 0:35 ` have cake will eat, eat cake " Juri Linkov
2009-08-28 2:31 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-28 15:34 ` Drew Adams [this message]
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