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From: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd@md5i.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd@md5i.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: C-x SPC : rectangle-mark-mode or gud-break?
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 19:12:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k3f0peh0.fsf@maru2.md5i.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fbec30c5-7ccf-4523-bd74-9e49af1d49f9@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Thu, 19 Dec 2013 13:41:45 -0800 (PST)")

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> I know I am opening up a can of worms here, but I am going to argue that
>> `C-x SPC' be changed back to `gud-break'.
>
> 1. `gud-break' should never have been given a global binding on prefix
> `C-x'.  It is fine for it to have a binding on `gud-key-prefix', i.e.,
> `C-x C-a'.  Why does it need a global binding?  And if it really does,
> for some reason, why sacrifice such an important global prefix key as
> `C-x' for it?

Nothing other than the fact that the keybinding has been around since at
least Emacs 18.58 (the first version I regularly used).  It's had a lot
of time for people to get used to it.

-- 
Michael Welsh Duggan
(md5i@md5i.com)



  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-20  0:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-19 19:48 C-x SPC : rectangle-mark-mode or gud-break? Michael Welsh Duggan
2013-12-19 21:41 ` Drew Adams
2013-12-20  0:12   ` Michael Welsh Duggan [this message]
2013-12-20  1:56     ` Drew Adams
2013-12-20  2:34       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-12-20  3:35         ` Drew Adams
2013-12-20  5:07           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-01-15 18:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-15 18:46   ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2014-01-15 23:45     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-16  0:39       ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2014-01-16  4:14         ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]       ` <CAM9Zgm0X=3PQYQvc6Pg6iDgRRKRs1bQ9wPU=gOP7xF9KdX40-w@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]         ` <jwv61pkrri0.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
2014-01-16 13:47           ` Bozhidar Batsov
2014-01-17 12:45     ` Bastien

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