From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Binding M-n and M-p to forward-paragraph and backward-paragraph respectively Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2011 15:30:58 -0400 Message-ID: <871v1bxlvx.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1302377475 1373 80.91.229.12 (9 Apr 2011 19:31:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 19:31:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs-Devel devel , Deniz Dogan To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 09 21:31:10 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q8dsB-00024L-Si for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Apr 2011 21:31:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43965 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q8dsB-0008NE-9M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Apr 2011 15:31:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42917 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q8ds5-0008Ft-SE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Apr 2011 15:31:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q8ds4-0005Db-Or for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Apr 2011 15:31:01 -0400 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-06.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.147]:36525) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q8ds4-0005DX-J8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Apr 2011 15:31:00 -0400 Original-Received: from furball ([64.134.240.70]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-06.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p39JUwrm008629 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sat, 9 Apr 2011 15:30:58 -0400 Original-Received: by furball (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AE1BF1602E5; Sat, 9 Apr 2011 15:30:58 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 08 Apr 2011 22:40:02 -0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.147 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.132.50.147 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:138336 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> I globally bind M-n and M-p to forward-paragraph and >> backward-paragraph respectively. > >> Would it be okay to make these global bindings default? > > I don't thi"nk so. It's one of the few short keys left for major modes > to bind to "next/prev" commands. How bout introducing M-n and M-p to those major modes where they don't already have a binding? OTOH, it seems harmless to bind them to, say, forward/backward-paragraph in text-mode.