From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs key bindings through the ages Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:23:34 +1100 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <87k5oi4vc9.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: <1195020235.983333.46390@o38g2000hse.googlegroups.com> <85hcjnrdfa.fsf@usenet.my.skamphausen.de> <9cdd2de9-993b-4eae-87c4-0ea884bfd97e@w73g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195191752 19506 80.91.229.12 (16 Nov 2007 05:42:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 05:42:32 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 16 06:42:38 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IstyP-00045V-Lt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:42:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IstyC-0001K9-Sm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:42:24 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!sn-xt-sjc-03!sn-xt-sjc-01!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:iCy/OzhpLoCn9e94IiHP9xuxWbo= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 33 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:153853 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:49281 Archived-At: bramble writes: > On Nov 15, 5:49 am, Stefan Kamphausen wrote: >> File: genesis.org >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> -*- mode: org -*- >> >> GENESIS - THE WORLD PROJECT >> >> [snip] >> >> ** TODO Make Humans >> SCHEDULED: <0000-00-06 Sat> >> > > Under "** TODO Make Humans" I was waiting for "*** Point out my wicked- > cool default shell and editor key bindings to RMS at some point (add > an `at` job to remind me). Try not to let him make me change any of > them." > > By the way, are there any Emacs key bindings that the community in > general doesn't like (aside from Xah ;) ), but that the powers that be > adamantly refuse to change? An odd one (odd to me, anyway) is using C- > x r m to make a bookmark (and C-x r b to return to a bookmark). I love > the feature, but C-x seems an odd prefix for it (maybe M-g would be > good for it (given what M-g g does), but maybe I'm missing something). I *think* the C-x prefix is to keep file related operations associated with C-x. Also, M-g is now used for goto-line. -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au