From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: basic question: going back to dired Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:29:11 -0600 Message-ID: References: <4884DC7F.6060406@gmail.com> <819feff4-76e3-4bf8-9ece-7b47f099efc2@j22g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <87mykaw8sb.fsf@nonospaz.fatphil.org> <4885D7FE.5050300@gmail.com> <4885E8C6.6040500@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216776593 19161 80.91.229.12 (23 Jul 2008 01:29:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:29:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 23 03:30:42 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KLTBg-00078p-Hq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:30:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37084 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLTAn-000245-6m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:29:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLTAT-000230-Vg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:29:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLTAR-00020d-Qm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:29:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59364 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLTAR-00020a-Jw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:29:23 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:36431 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KLTAR-00073s-8I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:29:23 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KLTAK-0002f3-7r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:29:16 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-190-29-163.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.190.29.163]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:29:16 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-190-29-163.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:29:16 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-190-29-163.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Macintosh/20080421) In-Reply-To: <4885E8C6.6040500@gmail.com> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:55840 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote: > Nikolaj Schumacher wrote: >> Of course the term shortcuts is something reminiscent of GUI programs. >> In a text editor menu entries like `compile' might have a shortcut, but >> calling C-b a shortcut seems weird. > > Maybe, but having manual entries in the index for "Shortcut" and "Key > Sequence" would perhaps help a little bit. Emacs 22.2 does have index entries for each, to well-written explanations of the terms. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA