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Re: Key binding M-g should really be goto-line
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: Key binding M-g should really be goto-line |
Date: |
Wed, 09 Mar 2005 23:34:54 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Romain Francoise <address@hidden> writes:
> Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> M-g could display a message:
>
>> Go to: line, M-g = line, char, file, next error, prev error, Other...
>
>> and have a keymap with the following key bindings:
>
>> M-g M-g - goto-line
>> M-g l - goto-line
>> M-g c - goto-char
>> M-g f - dired-goto-file
>> M-g n - next-error (goto-next-locus)
>> M-g M-n - next-error (goto-next-locus)
>> M-g p - previous-error
>> M-g M-p - previous-error
>
> This is a very good idea.
I am afraid that I have a hard time not to agree after thinking it
over.
> However, Dired users are probably used to M-g not being a prefix key
> since it's been bound to dired-goto-file in Dired-X for as long as I
> can remember (more than 11 years, says CVS).
Well, one could put M-g M-g on that in dired mode, but have M-g M-g
mean goto-line in most other modes.
It seems absurd to have dired-goto-file as a global binding.
> That being said, I'm very much in favor of this change--especially
> the bindings you suggest for next-error and previous-error.
Well, yes. It makes just too much sense to throw the idea out the
door.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- Re: Key binding M-g should really be goto-line, (continued)
- Re: Key binding M-g should really be goto-line, Kim F. Storm, 2005/03/10
- M-g binding in Gnus (was: Key binding M-g should really be goto-line), Reiner Steib, 2005/03/10
- Re: M-g binding in Gnus, Kim F. Storm, 2005/03/10
- Re: M-g binding in Gnus, Reiner Steib, 2005/03/10
- Re: M-g binding in Gnus, Kim F. Storm, 2005/03/10
- Re: Key binding M-g should really be goto-line, Richard Stallman, 2005/03/09
- Re: Key binding M-g should really be goto-line (To M-g M-g or not to M-g), Jari Aalto, 2005/03/10
- Re: Key binding M-g should really be goto-line (To M-g M-g or not to M-g), David Kastrup, 2005/03/10
- Re: Key binding M-g should really be goto-line (To M-g M-g or not to M-g), Jari Aalto, 2005/03/11
Re: Key binding M-g should really be goto-line, Romain Francoise, 2005/03/09
- Re: Key binding M-g should really be goto-line,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Key binding M-g should really be goto-line, Miles Bader, 2005/03/09
- Re: Key binding M-g should really be goto-line, David Kastrup, 2005/03/09
- Re: Key binding M-g should really be goto-line, Johan Bockgård, 2005/03/09
- Re: Key binding M-g should really be goto-line, Juri Linkov, 2005/03/10
- Re: Key binding M-g should really be goto-line, Romain Francoise, 2005/03/10
- Re: Key binding M-g should really be goto-line, David Kastrup, 2005/03/10
- Re: Key binding M-g should really be goto-line, Romain Francoise, 2005/03/10
- Re: Key binding M-g should really be goto-line, Andreas Schwab, 2005/03/10
- Re: Key binding M-g should really be goto-line, Kim F. Storm, 2005/03/10
Re: Key binding M-g should really be goto-line, Romain Francoise, 2005/03/18