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: Global keymaps [was: Yanking isearch to highlight-regexp] Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:15:29 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87bq1mxyem.fsf@jurta.org> References: <4853F884.7000609@gmail.com> <7dbe73ed0806141442h342f8ff0u83863f3980a7e229@mail.gmail.com> <48545D78.8080103@gmail.com> <4854E536.8040407@gmail.com> <87k5gql900.fsf@jurta.org> <87hcbt59s6.fsf@jurta.org> <87y74ubfnc.fsf@jurta.org> <87fxr1fe7d.fsf@jurta.org> <87ej6l5ffi.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 1214608705 2033 80.91.229.12 (27 Jun 2008 23:18:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:18:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 28 01:19:10 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 1KCNDi-0002m2-3t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:19:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37688 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KCNCr-0005mP-KL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:18:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KCNCn-0005mI-BO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:18:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KCNCk-0005m6-Ut for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:18:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39618 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KCNCk-0005m3-QW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:18:10 -0400 Original-Received: from relay02.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.197]:55617) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KCNCf-00043q-PH; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:18:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KCNCb-000NEr-Q4; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:18:01 +0300 In-Reply-To: <87ej6l5ffi.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:16:01 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Scanner-Signature: 367251710ae6d8069d2a2bb66b314d03 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Trusted X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 4129 [June 26 2008] X-SpamTest-Info: {received from trusted relay: common white list} X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: white ip list X-SpamTest-Rate: 10 X-SpamTest-Status: Trusted X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: trusted X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0278], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 6.x (1) 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:100075 Archived-At: >> I see bindings.el has other candidates for dedicated keymaps like >> recently discussed `C-x n' for narrow-related command, and also >> `C-x r' for register commands, `C-x a' for abbrev commands. > > Tho C-x r is a bit of a weird puppy, as it's both "register" and > "rectangle" commands (with some overlap). Then we can use the same naming convention as for C-x 4 and C-x 5 maps: ctl-x-4-map - keymap for subcommands of C-x 4 ctl-x-5-map - keymap for frame commands Such names don't restrict the map to commands of only one feature. By analogy, we could have: ctl-x-a-map - keymap for abbreviation commands ctl-x-n-map - keymap for narrowing commands ctl-x-r-map - keymap for register/rectangle subcommands of C-x r esc-g-map - keymap for navigation subcommands of M-g etc. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/