From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Daniel Neel <dneelyep@gmail.com>
Cc: 12132@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12132: 24.1; M-p and M-n should follow behave similarly to M-f and M-b
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 19:26:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvd337zhho.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKu9HwT5ZdhvD7opnADc8ZjDsveTuir1jNJj0Zj-oKbOFhHgjg@mail.gmail.com> (Daniel Neel's message of "Fri, 3 Aug 2012 13:00:55 -0400")
> My suggestion is to, by default, bind some movement behaviors to the M-p
> and M-n keys. Currently, the default left and right cursor movement keys
> are bound to C-f/b for going forward or backward by character, and M-f/b
> to go forward/backward by word.
Thank you for your suggestion.
I've often wondered what if anything could be bound to M-p, M-n, and
I always ended up with the conclusion that keeping them free for use by
local modes to be the best option.
Maybe it's just laziness on my part, of course.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-03 23:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-03 17:00 bug#12132: 24.1; M-p and M-n should follow behave similarly to M-f and M-b Daniel Neel
2012-08-03 23:26 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2019-10-30 23:31 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-21 11:48 ` Stefan Kangas
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