From: "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com>
Subject: Re: snarf up text when at query-replace from: prompt
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 12:32:01 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m18Wbqr-000IeIC@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E18WX7A-0001bE-00@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Richard Stallman on Thu, 09 Jan 2003 02:28:32 -0500)
well actually lets talk about C-s. If one hit C-s C-h, wouldn't it be
neat if it were like when one hit C-h k C-s?
No, because that action will confuse beginners. Acting on the
principle of `least surprise' they will come to expect all commands to
work like that. Thus, a beginner would expect `s C-h' to provide the
same results as `C-h k s' rather than the current result.
If you made such a change, to what would you rebind `C-h' to so as to
continue to provide the current features?
--
Robert J. Chassell Rattlesnake Enterprises
http://www.rattlesnake.com GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8
http://www.teak.cc bob@gnu.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-09 12:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-02 22:55 snarf up text when at query-replace from: prompt Dan Jacobson
[not found] ` <E18UYT9-0004yJ-00@fencepost.gnu.org>
2003-01-06 23:14 ` Dan Jacobson
2003-01-09 7:28 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-09 12:32 ` Robert J. Chassell [this message]
2003-01-10 9:53 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-10 12:02 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-01-10 14:25 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-01-12 11:54 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <E18WX79-0001b4-00@fencepost.gnu.org>
2003-01-10 4:03 ` Dan Jacobson
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=m18Wbqr-000IeIC@localhost \
--to=bob@rattlesnake.com \
--cc=bob@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.