From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phil Jackson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Grep key bindings Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:37:48 +0100 Message-ID: <87abgzyo4z.fsf@shellarchive.co.uk> References: <4853F884.7000609@gmail.com> <7dbe73ed0806141442h342f8ff0u83863f3980a7e229@mail.gmail.com> <48545D78.8080103@gmail.com> <4854E536.8040407@gmail.com> <87k5gql900.fsf@jurta.org> <878wwp1an8.fsf@jurta.org> <871w2gi58m.fsf@jurta.org> <87d4m0c9md.fsf@jurta.org> <87wsk89byj.fsf@jurta.org> <87bq1ihey5.fsf@jurta.org> <878wwlpa0e.fsf_-_@jurta.org> <87bq1h1dqg.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87iqvpnucx.fsf@jurta.org> <8763rp1chc.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1215099509 21288 80.91.229.12 (3 Jul 2008 15:38:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 15:38:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 03 17:39:14 2008 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 4.50) id 1KEQtk-00079Y-92 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:39:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47910 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KEQst-0000cB-GL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:38:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KEQsn-0000Xu-Rq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:38:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KEQsl-0000RG-2v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:38:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40910 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KEQsk-0000Qw-QV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:38:02 -0400 Original-Received: from a.painless.aaisp.net.uk ([81.187.30.51]:50496) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KEQsf-0006KM-NZ; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:37:57 -0400 Original-Received: from 241.28.187.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.187.28.241] helo=home-desktop) by a.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KEQsZ-0002z4-Cd; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:37:51 +0100 In-Reply-To: <8763rp1chc.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:11:27 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: 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:100301 Archived-At: Miles Bader writes: > Juri Linkov writes: [...] >>> Trying to bind _everything_ just reduces the quality of bindings in >>> general. >> >> But I don't propose to bind everything. Only most frequently used >> commands deserve global key bindings, and grep family of commands >> undoubtedly belong to this category. > > That's quite debatable; I actually use "M-x grep" many many times a day, > but have never felt it needed a binding. For what it's worth I use project-root.el[1] and bind 'C-c p g' to grep (actually I use ack[2] more) from the current project root. I do that several times a day. If, on the rare occasion, I want to grep from `default-directory' I just type M-x grep. Cheers, Phil [1] http://www.shellarchive.co.uk/content/lisp/project-root.el [2] http://www.shellarchive.co.uk/content/lisp/ack.el