Re: Annoying new features in newer Oorts

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

>>>>>> Matt Armstrong <matt@lickey.com>:
>
>> 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.
>
> Good suggestion.  I'm for it.

I like this approach better as well.

OTOH, it seems as if Emacs in general is moving away from C-a meaning
start of line, so the new message behaviour is consistent with the
rest of modern emacs.  I like the behaviour in the shell mode, and in
minibuffer prompts, but it feels wrong in message mode.

The same behaviour could be used when jumping passed quote prefixes as
well. C-a goes to start of line, C-a again goes to start of quoted
text.