From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Unuseful keybindings Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 21:53:30 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Message-ID: <871ueg4hit.fsf@gnus.org> References: <87sj73qzvl.fsf@gmail.com> <87623zquvw.fsf@gmail.com> <87ip7zdud3.fsf@gmail.com> <87ehiiu5x7.fsf@gnu.org> <876A7D1112084247AE53F7EE42B4587C@us.oracle.com> <80ehih3hlj.fsf@somewhere.org> <87pq21iwrw.fsf@yandex.ru> <87AE81CEB91846DB94BC5F3B40C788DE@us.oracle.com> <50D64318.5030501@yandex.ru> <0FBA2D9ECA214D82B5C65E5A09E7EE19@us.oracle.com> <50D71824.90601@yandex.ru> <1C9978ED468E4CC8948C1B93D6806A18@us.oracle.com> <50D7405E.5070604@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1356296029 28621 80.91.229.3 (23 Dec 2012 20:53:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 20:53:49 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 23 21:54:05 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TmsYd-0006F6-OX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 21:54:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55300 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TmsYP-0001F5-SP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 15:53:49 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42649) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TmsYI-0001Dy-79 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 15:53:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TmsYH-0003S7-14 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 15:53:42 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:56154) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TmsYG-0003Rz-Qr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 15:53:40 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TmsYS-00060m-NO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 21:53:52 +0100 Original-Received: from ip-90-20-179-93.dialup.ice.net ([93.179.20.90]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 21:53:52 +0100 Original-Received: from larsi by ip-90-20-179-93.dialup.ice.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 21:53:52 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-90-20-179-93.dialup.ice.net Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Winston Tong's _Theoretically Chinese_ User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZMj36qb0UsUIav+jDbErseTC0H4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:155829 Archived-At: Speaking of odd key bindings, I just noticed that `home' goes to the beginning of the line instead of the beginning of the buffer. Looking at the source code, it seems like this change was done 12 years ago. :-) Isn't that an odd choice? `home' in Firefox, for instance, goes to the beginning of the page. And `M-C-<' is more of a mouthful than `C-a', so that seems kinda odd... -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen