From: jari.aalto@poboxes.com (Jari Aalto+mail.emacs)
Subject: Suggestion: Mapping of M-g should be goto-line
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 08:11:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u10d4fsj.fsf@blue.sea.net> (raw)
M-g in current 21.3 is mapped to binding "set face default".
First, it is not possible to obtain any help information with
standard binding to see what it actually does:
C-h k M-g
Second, it is unlikely that new Emacs user, or even
experienced one seldom uses this keybinding. I have yet to
find use for this functionality (= never used in my Emacs
lifetime).
There may be few users that may potentially find the current
binding useful in some cases. But I hardly think those few
users needs should be put first, when considering the
usefulness of the current binding in large.
If put side by side, "set face default" and goto-line, I would
estimate that the 99 % of the cases, there is more need for
goto-line. Therefore it would be better if the M-g was mapped
to it.
Users need line information. After all, Emacs for most, is
programming language development environment: C / C++, Python,
Perl, Ruby etc. In time they may find and start use other
features like Gnus, Mail and others.
The "de facto" situation for long has been that everybody maps
M-g to goto-line. People advice that in newsgroups, because it
is indeed the most logical key.
If we would take a poll in Emacs newsgroups, presumably the
"yes" votes for goto-line would win in great majority.
It would be better if Emacs supported this 99 % daily usage of
M-g, instead of current not-so-useful binding.
Jari
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2004-03-25 6:11 Jari Aalto+mail.emacs [this message]
2004-03-25 7:23 ` Suggestion: Mapping of M-g should be goto-line Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-25 9:10 ` John Wiegley
2004-03-25 15:06 ` Eric Hanchrow
2004-03-25 16:39 ` ams
2004-03-25 21:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-03-25 22:21 ` David Kastrup
2004-03-25 23:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-03-25 23:41 ` David Kastrup
2004-03-25 23:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-03-26 0:50 ` David Kastrup
2004-03-26 2:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-03-26 11:14 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-03-26 10:29 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-03-26 12:38 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-03-26 13:36 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-03-26 14:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-03-27 0:07 ` Miles Bader
2004-03-27 14:53 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-04-01 1:53 ` Miles Bader
2004-03-28 1:36 ` Richard Stallman
2004-03-26 15:27 ` Per Abrahamsen
2004-03-26 17:49 ` Alan Mackenzie
2004-03-26 15:19 ` Per Abrahamsen
2004-03-26 16:40 ` David Kastrup
2004-04-01 14:25 ` Per Abrahamsen
2004-04-01 16:15 ` David Kastrup
2004-03-25 16:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-03-26 0:19 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-03-26 16:53 ` Alan Mackenzie
2004-03-25 9:46 ` Danilo Segan
2004-03-25 9:54 ` Lucas
2004-03-25 10:21 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-03-25 10:32 ` Jari Aalto+mail.linux
2004-03-25 11:23 ` Danilo Segan
2004-03-25 11:34 ` Lucas
2004-03-25 14:22 ` Vinicius Jose Latorre
2004-03-25 11:55 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-03-25 12:30 ` Danilo Segan
2004-03-25 13:43 ` David Kastrup
2004-03-25 14:34 ` Danilo Segan
2004-03-29 20:34 ` Ted Lemon
2004-03-25 13:53 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-03-25 14:49 ` Danilo Segan
2004-03-25 15:14 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-03-25 16:08 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-03-25 16:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-03-25 18:56 ` Per Abrahamsen
2004-03-25 19:39 ` David Kastrup
2004-03-25 12:25 ` Jari Aalto+mail.linux
2004-03-25 12:55 ` Danilo Segan
2004-03-25 14:16 ` Jari Aalto
2004-03-25 16:28 ` David Kastrup
2004-03-25 17:28 ` Alan Shutko
2004-03-25 12:27 ` David Kastrup
2004-03-25 13:47 ` Danilo Segan
2004-03-25 15:18 ` David Kastrup
2004-03-25 13:35 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-03-25 13:53 ` Danilo Segan
2004-03-25 21:09 ` Juri Linkov
2004-03-27 5:52 ` Richard Stallman
2004-03-27 16:30 ` Joachim Nilsson
2004-03-26 0:11 ` Jari Aalto+mail.linux
2004-03-26 14:31 ` David Kastrup
2004-03-26 15:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-03-26 21:31 ` Jari Aalto
2004-03-26 21:29 ` David Kastrup
2004-03-27 0:16 ` Miles Bader
2004-03-28 17:02 ` Jari Aalto+mail.emacs
2004-03-28 17:37 ` David Kastrup
2004-03-28 21:11 ` Miles Bader
2004-03-28 21:10 ` Miles Bader
2004-03-25 11:42 ` David Kastrup
2004-03-25 12:27 ` Jari Aalto+mail.emacs
2004-03-25 14:56 ` Joachim Nilsson
2004-03-25 18:03 ` David Kastrup
2004-03-25 19:10 ` Per Abrahamsen
2004-03-25 16:47 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-03-25 16:42 ` David Kastrup
2004-03-26 0:13 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-03-27 5:52 ` Richard Stallman
2004-03-27 8:14 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-03-27 11:00 ` David Kastrup
2004-03-27 13:50 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-03-27 10:46 ` David Kastrup
2004-03-28 4:25 ` Richard Stallman
2004-03-28 17:03 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-03-28 21:14 ` Miles Bader
2004-04-01 16:04 ` Per Abrahamsen
2004-04-01 17:35 ` David Kastrup
2004-03-27 16:17 ` Joachim Nilsson
2004-03-28 4:25 ` Richard Stallman
2004-03-28 13:32 ` Joachim Nilsson
2004-03-28 13:50 ` David Kastrup
2004-03-28 17:52 ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-03-28 17:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-03-28 21:18 ` Miles Bader
2004-03-29 20:56 ` Richard Stallman
2004-03-31 9:30 ` Kim F. Storm
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