From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Key bindings proposal Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:28:38 +0200 Message-ID: References: <19534.1494.627000.357123@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <19537.40472.267000.563053@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <176EDAD3B9E54E39870FA3F84A5DDF3C@us.oracle.com> <19542.56658.583000.394397@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <19544.1015.468000.280770@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <87lj8nsndb.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <19545.14451.62000.682223@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <19545.19472.187000.199606@gargle.gargle.HOWL> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1280921340 5673 80.91.229.12 (4 Aug 2010 11:29:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 11:29:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" , Drew Adams , joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Uday S Reddy Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 04 13:28:57 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ogc9X-0007tl-OE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:28:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37599 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ogc9X-0008K3-3v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2010 07:28:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45107 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ogc9N-0008J9-C6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2010 07:28:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ogc9M-0002gS-2h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2010 07:28:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.10]:47917) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ogc9L-0002gE-Po for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2010 07:28:44 -0400 Original-Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB2D11C0044A; Wed, 4 Aug 2010 13:28:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from hase.home (ppp-88-217-100-9.dynamic.mnet-online.de [88.217.100.9]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 369151C00141; Wed, 4 Aug 2010 13:28:39 +0200 (CEST) X-Yow: I'm also against BODY-SURFING!! In-Reply-To: <19545.19472.187000.199606@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (Uday S. Reddy's message of "Wed, 4 Aug 2010 12:16:32 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:128227 Archived-At: Uday S Reddy writes: > When menus are designed carefully to avoid conflict, keyboard > accelerators become competitive with key bindings. Then one doesn't > need to remember key bindings any more. So you have to remember menu entries. Big deal. Key bindings don't change with the text in the menu entries, and are customizable. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."