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Kirsten Tremaine <kitr@listen.fm> writes:

> Exactly -- "or something like that".  It's a comparatively obscure
> function vis-a-vis goto-line.  How often do you use the standard m-g
> in gnuemacs?  For me the answer was "never".  Sounds like the same for
> you.  So why not rebind it to goto-line and thereby have the same
> binding in both emacs variants at minimal cost?

I think that C-x g is a good choice because its default behavior of
insert-register can be had with C-x r g, too.

And C-x g is nicely mnemonic.
-- 
A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.