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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: 12132@debbugs.gnu.org, Daniel Neel <dneelyep@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#12132: 24.1; M-p and M-n should follow behave similarly to M-f and M-b
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 00:31:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eeytvmhd.fsf@joffe.skangas.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvd337zhho.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 03 Aug 2012 19:26:21 -0400")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:

>> My suggestion is to, by default, bind some movement behaviors to the M-p
>> and M-n keys. Currently, the default left and right cursor movement keys
>> are bound to C-f/b for going forward or backward by character, and M-f/b
>> to go forward/backward by word.
>
> Thank you for your suggestion.
> I've often wondered what if anything could be bound to M-p, M-n, and
> I always ended up with the conclusion that keeping them free for use by
> local modes to be the best option.
> Maybe it's just laziness on my part, of course.

I think I agree with Stefan Monnier here.  Any objections to closing
this as wontfix?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas





  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-30 23:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-03 17:00 bug#12132: 24.1; M-p and M-n should follow behave similarly to M-f and M-b Daniel Neel
2012-08-03 23:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-10-30 23:31   ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2019-11-21 11:48     ` Stefan Kangas

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