Re: M-g in dired

Re: M-g in dired

[David Hansen]

On Thu, 18 May 2006 22:04:57 -0400 Richard Stallman wrote:

>     In most contexts M-g is a prefix key, but in dired it is bound to
>     dired-goto-file.  I often run the command compile while visiting a
>     dired buffer, but cannot jump to errors with M-g M-n as usual.
>
> This binding is a leftover from a time when M-g had a different global
> meaning.  We should get rid of this binding, and move the command to
> another key.

BTW gnus uses M-g too in summary and group buffers.

David

Re: M-g in dired

[Reiner Steib]

On Fri, May 19 2006, David Hansen wrote:

> On Thu, 18 May 2006 22:04:57 -0400 Richard Stallman wrote:
>
>>     In most contexts M-g is a prefix key, but in dired it is bound to
>>     dired-goto-file.  I often run the command compile while visiting a
>>     dired buffer, but cannot jump to errors with M-g M-n as usual.
>>
>> This binding is a leftover from a time when M-g had a different global
>> meaning.  We should get rid of this binding, and move the command to
>> another key.
>
> BTW gnus uses M-g too in summary and group buffers.

I don't see any need to have the bindings for goto-line, next-error
and previous-error available in Gnus Group buffers.

(I think we already discussed this when M-g was changes in Emacs.)

Bye, Reiner.
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Re: M-g in dired

[Miles Bader]

David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net> writes:
>> This binding is a leftover from a time when M-g had a different global
>> meaning.  We should get rid of this binding, and move the command to
>> another key.
>
> BTW gnus uses M-g too in summary and group buffers.

This was discussed at the time Emacs adopted the M-g prefix, and I think
the conclusion was that it's not a big deal -- though it's too ingrained /
important a binding to change in Gnus, people are not that likely to want
to use the M-g prefix while reading news/mail.

-Miles
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