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: Re: Suggestion to change the behavior of M-r Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:52:32 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87y6poivkn.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <7b501d5c0904190940x24e9412fvb26dc531b096a62d@mail.gmail.com> <7b501d5c0908121151h59753720iaf34c60f06a074af@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1250118565 14497 80.91.229.12 (12 Aug 2009 23:09:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:09:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Deniz Dogan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 13 01:09:18 2009 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 1MbMwX-0008RA-Cg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:09:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56066 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MbMwU-0001o5-LS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:09:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MbMwN-0001mY-DW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:09:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MbMwI-0001lL-NR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:09:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44675 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MbMwI-0001lH-Jp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:09:02 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp-out1.starman.ee ([85.253.0.3]:37961 helo=mx1.starman.ee) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MbMwH-0003Tw-TO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:09:02 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by Amavisd-New at mx1.starman.ee Original-Received: from mail.starman.ee (82.131.68.109.cable.starman.ee [82.131.68.109]) by mx1.starman.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 404103F41A4; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:08:55 +0300 (EEST) In-Reply-To: <7b501d5c0908121151h59753720iaf34c60f06a074af@mail.gmail.com> (Deniz Dogan's message of "Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:51:59 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:114159 Archived-At: > I'm guessing that no one is interested after all, but for convenience > I tried compiling a couple of patches for this change: one which adds > this functionality to lisp/window.el (and also binds it to M-r) and > one which updates etc/NEWS if it needs to be documented there. I think M-r is a bad key for window-related functionality. It is usually associated with search. For example, we have a plan to use M-r in comint mode to start Isearch (see bug#3746). -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/