From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Key bindings proposal Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:34:20 +0100 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <874oefelcj.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <19534.1494.627000.357123@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <19537.40472.267000.563053@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <87tymlv41y.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <19575.29932.150000.820415@gargle.gargle.HOWL> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1282949817 3863 80.91.229.12 (27 Aug 2010 22:56:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:56:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Uday S Reddy Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 28 00:56:55 2010 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 1Op7qx-0005iJ-EC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:56:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55306 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Op7qx-0005xl-1R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:56:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56224 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Op7qj-0005ua-DR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:56:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Op7qd-00064b-J9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:56:41 -0400 Original-Received: from smarty.dreamhost.com ([208.113.175.8]:35010) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Op7qd-00064X-Cw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:56:35 -0400 Original-Received: from ps18281.dreamhostps.com (ps18281.dreamhost.com [69.163.218.105]) by smarty.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1BB16E804C; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:56:34 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (ps18281.dreamhostps.com [69.163.218.105]) by ps18281.dreamhostps.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28EF1451C1B4; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:56:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <19575.29932.150000.820415@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (Uday S. Reddy's message of "Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:18:52 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:129321 Archived-At: > Dear Juri, Thanks for an excellent summary and putting the life back > into this thread! Since you brought up the key binding `M-s a C-s' (added by yours truly) as an example of the obsession with key bindings, I feel responsible for your criticism :-) > Rather, a prefix key like M-x (say, M-z for argument's sake) would be > used for invoking mode-specific "command names". Each mode would bind > such command names to actual elisp functions, and this allows us to > reuse the command names in each mode. I see, we have mode-specific menus and mode-specific key bindings, but not mode-specific command names for the M-x namespace. Maybe it should be not just mode-specific but also context-dependent in a broader sense. Some programs provide to pop up a context menu. So Emacs could provide a separate context menu and corresponding command namespace and key prefixes.