From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Suggestion: Mapping of M-g should be goto-line Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 23:25:13 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1080448534 20684 80.91.224.253 (28 Mar 2004 04:35:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 04:35:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jari.aalto@poboxes.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 28 06:35:29 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B7S1B-0005YB-00 for ; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 06:35:29 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B7S1A-0007TH-00 for ; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 06:35:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B7Rz0-0004dr-7Y for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2004 23:33:14 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B7Rxi-0004Hh-1D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2004 23:31:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B7RxA-000463-UL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2004 23:31:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B7RwG-0003vl-OK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2004 23:30:24 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1B7RrF-0008Im-4w; Sat, 27 Mar 2004 23:25:13 -0500 Original-To: David Kastrup In-reply-to: (message from David Kastrup on 27 Mar 2004 11:46:11 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:21011 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:21011 > I chose the M-g binding for that reason, and the reason continues to > have force. So I don't intend to change that binding. I can't see the particular mnemonic value of that binding. M-g is not mnemonic. It is not a very good binding, but it seemed to be the best that was available. If you can suggest a better binding for the text property commands, I could agree to moving them. AUCTeX has for its font selection commands C-c C-f C-t (for example, for switching to typewriter). That's okay for AUCTeX because it is a major mode, but it would not be allowed for a global binding. Anyway, it is one extra character, which is not very nice. Anyone using Emacs to edit a document with faces would probably use these commands very often.