From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Welsh Duggan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C-x SPC : rectangle-mark-mode or gud-break? Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 19:12:43 -0500 Message-ID: <87k3f0peh0.fsf@maru2.md5i.com> References: <8738lo7hbz.fsf@maru2.md5i.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1387498374 30157 80.91.229.3 (20 Dec 2013 00:12:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 00:12:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Michael Welsh Duggan , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 20 01:13:00 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vtni6-0003d9-Kg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Dec 2013 01:12:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46955 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vtni5-0008Ay-Vn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Dec 2013 19:12:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41453) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vtnhz-0008Ad-3c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Dec 2013 19:12:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vtnhu-0001CD-U6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Dec 2013 19:12:51 -0500 Original-Received: from md5i.com ([75.151.244.229]:49356 helo=maru2.md5i.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vtnhu-0001C3-Oc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Dec 2013 19:12:46 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=md5i.com; s=dkim; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:Date:References:Subject:Cc:To:From; bh=inAERbqUU2q+1s3ASCeaqCU7vMpINDCBBOurchRIeQE=; b=WilKEireLd9YMyajciK4szY3jxF/XK4Pj0kCYNfxzKzzs4ljPwZbOXg2w9PaFayY3PZ1yNn1LNCsQOePoHAoE1Js0W2JCYcREuwYorQNF7wZLvD0Rv1FvwWKyM8A5GoS; Original-Received: from md5i by maru2.md5i.com with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Vtnhr-0002qc-Fv; Thu, 19 Dec 2013 19:12:43 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Thu, 19 Dec 2013 13:41:45 -0800 (PST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 75.151.244.229 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:166635 Archived-At: Drew Adams 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)