C-c C-x M-g??

C-c C-x M-g??

[Andrea Crotti]

Some time ago I did a short talk about emacs and one vi-guy asked me
what is the "meaning" of all the
C-c, C-x, keys.

What I thought was that C-c stands for command, C-x stands for execute,
and then the problem is that most of the other keys are already taken.

Yesterday I also found M-g, so now I should really find a good
explanation before the next talk ;)

Any help

Re: C-c C-x M-g??

[Sean Sieger]

Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> writes:

    Some time ago I did a short talk about emacs and one vi-guy asked me
    what is the "meaning" of all the
    C-c, C-x, keys.

    What I thought was that C-c stands for command, C-x stands for execute,
    and then the problem is that most of the other keys are already taken.

    Yesterday I also found M-g, so now I should really find a good
    explanation before the next talk ;)

    Any help

There are several tidbits in the Tutorial.

Re: C-c C-x M-g??

[Bob Proulx]

Andrea Crotti wrote:
> What I thought was that C-c stands for command, C-x stands for execute,
> and then the problem is that most of the other keys are already taken.

Most commands were tied to the first level keys directly.  C-f for
Forward, C-b for Backward, C-n for Next, C-p for previous and so
forth.  But eventually you run out of mnemonics and just have to pick
a key for it.  But for the eXtended key set C-x was used.

You can find this in the emacs tutorial.

	C-x	Character eXtend.  Followed by one character.
	M-x	Named command eXtend.  Followed by a long name.

> Yesterday I also found M-g, so now I should really find a good
> explanation before the next talk ;)

The control-g character is the bell character.  It rings the terminal
bell.  An interrupt.  Cancel.  Ding!

Bob

Re: C-c C-x M-g??

[Deniz Dogan]

2010/11/26 Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com>:
> Some time ago I did a short talk about emacs and one vi-guy asked me
> what is the "meaning" of all the
> C-c, C-x, keys.
>
> What I thought was that C-c stands for command, C-x stands for execute,
> and then the problem is that most of the other keys are already taken.
>
> Yesterday I also found M-g, so now I should really find a good
> explanation before the next talk ;)
>

M-g is most likely mnemonic for "Go [somewhere]".

-- 
Deniz Dogan