From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [ERC] wanna have C-a take me to after prompt.. Date: 19 Jun 2002 10:57:33 +0900 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87ofea6p5z.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <871yb57mcn.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1024452042 31904 127.0.0.1 (19 Jun 2002 02:00:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 02:00:42 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17KUm1-0008IT-00 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 04:00:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17KUlU-0005Uk-00; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 22:00:08 -0400 Original-Received: from tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp ([210.143.35.52]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17KUj4-0005QG-00; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 21:57:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailgate4.nec.co.jp ([10.7.69.197]) by TYO202.gate.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W01080315) with ESMTP id g5J1vae00617; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 10:57:36 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mailsv4.nec.co.jp (mailgate51.nec.co.jp [10.7.69.196]) by mailgate4.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILGATE-NEC) with ESMTP id g5J1vZl09865; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 10:57:35 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp ([10.30.114.133]) by mailsv4.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILSV4-NEC) with ESMTP id g5J1vY202255; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 10:57:34 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (mcspd15 [10.30.114.174]) by mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (8.10.2+Sun/3.7Wlsi_mx_6.0) with ESMTP id g5J1vYK12176; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 10:57:34 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (Postfix, from userid 31295) id EE95C37C8; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 10:57:33 +0900 (JST) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 21 Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:493 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:493 miles@lsi.nec.co.jp (Miles Bader) writes: > Completely disagree. 99% of the time you don't want to be inside the > prompt, and having C-a at the beginning of the line jump there would > simply be confusing. For the remaining 1%, it's easy enough to type > `C-b C-a'. Oh, and another important point is that it would make C-a `feel wrong': In normal usage, C-a is an `absolute' movement command -- it jumps to a fixed point and sticks there -- not a `relative' movement command (like many other emacs movement commands). The current operation of C-a in comint preserves that feeling, which I think is quite important; changing that makes the command feel kind of flaky (I know because I used emacs for a while with `C-a moves twice' behavior, when working on the field code for the minibuffer). -Miles -- [|nurgle|] ddt- demonic? so quake will have an evil kinda setting? one that will make every christian in the world foamm at the mouth? [iddt] nurg, that's the goal