From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Zachary Kanfer <zkanfer@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: proposal: bind C-x r DEL to #'delete-rectangle
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2016 22:03:09 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d0d3ee67-e744-41e6-a4c8-54b82bf57f90@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFXT+ROqrUEvFodYT1rHpnf5Zypqoh_4tMkSzxY6Jf0AcLu9ag@mail.gmail.com>
> >> Rectangle bindings are off `C-x r`. Currently, #'delete-rectangle can
> >> be ran with `C-x r d`. I think it's intuitive to bind `C-x r DEL` to
> >> #'delete-rectangle also. This patch does not touch `C-x r d`; that
> >> keybinding still calls #'delete-rectangle.
> >
> > I'd say no. `C-x r' has a mix of different kinds of commands
> > (bookmarks, registers, rectangles), and it has had such a mix
> > since about forever. `C-x r' is not the place to be defining
> > alternative keys for the same command, IMHO. ...
>
> Well, fair enough. I'll just keep it in my init file, then.
Just to be sure you know: I was giving my opinion - one opinion
only. I don't speak for Emacs development, at all. You need
not give up on your suggestion just because of my opinion. :-)
Sorry if my reply gave you an impression that your suggestion
was being shot down.
---
FWIW, I think it might be a good idea to split the key bindings
that are currently on prefix `C-x r'. In my library Bookmark+,
I support the usual bookmark keys on `C-x r', but I also put
keymap `bookmark-map' on prefix key `C-x p', by default.
For example, these standard bookmark commands also have `C-x p'
bindings in Bookmark+, by default:
C-x p I bookmark-insert-location
C-x p d bookmark-delete
C-x p e edit-bookmarks
C-x p g bookmark-jump
C-x p l bookmark-load
C-x p o bookmark-jump-other-window
C-x p q bookmark-jump-other-window
C-x p s bookmark-save
C-x p w bookmark-write
C-x p c M bookmark-set
(By default, `C-x p c' is a prefix key for bookmark create/set
commands, and `C-x p t' is a prefix key for bookmark tagging
commands.)
Emacs could do reasonably do something similar. And it could
similarly choose to move the register (alternatively, rectangle)
commands to a different prefix key from `C-x r'. It really
makes little sense at this point (except for habit) to put
such different things on the same prefix key (IMO).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-10 5:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-06 5:02 proposal: bind C-x r DEL to #'delete-rectangle Zachary Kanfer
2016-10-06 16:18 ` Drew Adams
2016-10-10 4:20 ` Zachary Kanfer
2016-10-10 5:03 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2016-10-10 5:17 ` John Wiegley
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