From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: right-char and left-char
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:08:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <837h4hgg1y.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k48h224a.fsf@stupidchicken.com>
> From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:20:53 -0400
>
> Another question: how come C-<right> is bound to `right-word' but
> M-<right> is still bound to `forward-word'? An oversight?
Not an oversight. Users of bidirectional scripts expect
Control-arrows to move by words in the paragraph direction, but they
don't expect Meta-arrows to do that. In fact, I'm not aware of many
applications that bind Meta-arrows to cursor motion commands.
That said, I have no objections to make Meta-arrows do the same, if
you think being consistent is better. I don't think it will surprise
users of bidirectional scripts if we make Meta-arrows behave similarly
to Control-arrows.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-07 12:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-06 16:45 right-char and left-char Chong Yidong
2011-10-06 18:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-06 22:04 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-06 22:45 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-07 12:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-07 1:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-07 12:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-07 12:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-06 22:20 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-07 12:08 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-10-07 15:57 ` Chong Yidong
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