From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Binding M-n and M-p to forward-paragraph and backward-paragraphrespectively
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:17:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTimqL7wNmVp0aTDPw6PzyuKviSpndA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bp0ecvrd.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull
<stephen@xemacs.org> wrote:
> Leo writes:
>
> > On the other hand, advertising M-n/p as global keys for users to
> > customise might be better than provide default bindings.
>
> A big -1 on that. C-c <letter> is reserved to users. That's not very
> many, but OTOH it's a very clear, and by now fairly well-known, and
> very simple, rule. Advertising random keys as available just because
> they're not currently bound would be confusing and constraining.
>
> I'm a small :-) -1 on the present proposal to bind M-n/M-p to
> paragraph movement because they already have bindings in the default
> global keymap. I am aware that M-} is not easy to type on many
> keyboards, and binding M-n to forward-paragraph would be a great
> customization for people who prefer those layouts. OTOH, there may be
> other reasonable bindings (eg, I bind a command that rotates the tabs,
> as I often have 2-3 times as many related buffers as can reasonably
> fit on the tabs).
+1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-10 13:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-07 13:57 Binding M-n and M-p to forward-paragraph and backward-paragraph respectively Deniz Dogan
2011-04-07 16:33 ` Binding M-n and M-p to forward-paragraph and backward-paragraphrespectively Drew Adams
2011-04-07 17:57 ` Sean Sieger
2011-04-07 18:15 ` Binding M-n and M-p to forward-paragraph andbackward-paragraphrespectively Drew Adams
2011-04-07 18:24 ` Sean Sieger
2011-04-07 18:28 ` Binding M-n and M-p to forward-paragraphandbackward-paragraphrespectively Drew Adams
2011-04-07 18:29 ` Sean Sieger
2011-04-07 20:31 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-04-07 20:53 ` Binding M-n and M-p toforward-paragraphandbackward-paragraphrespectively Drew Adams
2011-04-08 3:13 ` Davis Herring
2011-04-08 8:09 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-04-07 22:30 ` Binding M-n and M-p to forward-paragraphandbackward-paragraphrespectively David De La Harpe Golden
2011-04-08 10:19 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-04-08 21:48 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-09 1:40 ` Binding M-n and M-p to forward-paragraph and backward-paragraph respectively Stefan Monnier
2011-04-09 4:10 ` chad
2011-04-09 15:24 ` Binding M-n and M-p to forward-paragraph and backward-paragraphrespectively Drew Adams
2011-04-09 19:09 ` chad
2011-04-09 19:26 ` Drew Adams
2011-04-10 2:49 ` Leo
2011-04-10 3:10 ` chad
2011-04-10 5:37 ` Leo
2011-04-10 9:15 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-04-10 13:17 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2011-04-09 21:29 ` Davis Herring
2011-04-09 22:50 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-04-09 19:30 ` Binding M-n and M-p to forward-paragraph and backward-paragraph respectively Chong Yidong
2011-04-10 3:33 ` Stefan Monnier
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