From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: right-char and left-char Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:08:25 +0200 Message-ID: <837h4hgg1y.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87k48it6g3.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83pqiagew4.fsf@gnu.org> <87k48h224a.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1317989322 19332 80.91.229.12 (7 Oct 2011 12:08:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 12:08:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 07 14:08:33 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RC9E9-0006zE-Lp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:08:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43278 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RC9E9-00089U-3U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:08:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:50681) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RC9E6-00089M-UF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:08:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RC9E1-0002Pt-BU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:08:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:35493) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RC9E1-0002PJ-3T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:08:25 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LSP000002YFD100@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:08:22 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.91.138]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LSP0002231XC120@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:08:22 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87k48h224a.fsf@stupidchicken.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:144688 Archived-At: > From: Chong Yidong > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:20:53 -0400 > > Another question: how come C- is bound to `right-word' but > M- 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.