Re: Annoying new features in newer Oorts

[Matt Armstrong <matt@lickey.com>]

(if I've sent this twice, disregard the first and read this one, sorry)

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Karl Eichwalder <ke@gnu.franken.de> writes:
>
>> The question simply is: where does a header line start?  Some of us
>> think it starts in column 0, others think it starts after ": ".  Both
>> parties are "right"; in those case it's good habbit to leave things as
>> are.
>
> This is not the question, IMHO.  The question is, when in a header,
> what would be a convenient place for C-a to go to?  And the current
> behavior gets you to the colon with one C-a, and to the beginning of
> the line with two C-a.  The old behavior got you to the beginning to
> the line with one C-a, but getting to the colon was difficult.
>
> One could try to make a user option, but given the existence of
> define-key, this seems a bit superfluous.

I notice that C-a toggles between the end of line and just after the
colon.  Could we change C-a to go to the beginning of the line first
and to the colon when already there?  This way you'd do C-a C-a to get
the magical behavior and people's hard coded brain pathways would not
be strained as hard.

I like the magical behavior, but I have found it hard to retrain my
brain.  I seem to always end up killing a header line while not
actually being at the beginning of the line.

The other instances of "magical C-a" in Emacs that I'm aware of are
all cases where a shell or program prompt is displayed.  It arguably
never makes sense to go the left past a prompt, while it does make
sense to do so in the message header.


Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> WINI C-a in body could have added magic, too?  In a cited line, it
> could go to the end of the ">>" prefix.

Ditto Josh's comments here.


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