From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/17900 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: new prefix needed for disblay? Date: 18 Oct 1998 19:57:28 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035156517 3260 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:28:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:28:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA29571 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 14:02:28 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAB14227; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 12:58:51 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 18 Oct 1998 12:58:53 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA26352 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 12:58:38 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from xiphias.pdc.kth.se (xiphias.pdc.kth.se [130.237.221.226]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA29498 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 13:58:24 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from jas@localhost) by xiphias.pdc.kth.se (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA06223; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 19:57:29 +0200 (METDST) Original-To: Hrvoje Niksic In-Reply-To: Hrvoje Niksic's message of "18 Oct 1998 19:26:21 +0200" Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Lines: 27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070034 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.34) Emacs/20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:17900 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:17900 Hrvoje Niksic writes: > > `M-m' is definitely a possibility. We don't have to limit ourselves > > to alphabetical keys, though. We could put this on, er, backtick or > > tilde or plus or something. Although I can't, at the moment, think > > of anything that looks even semi-mnemonic in that area... > > Backtick sounds like a nice idea ergonomically (requires no modifiers, > even shift, on american keyboard), which is important because that > command might be used often, especially with numeric prefix and > command postfix (`3 ` o' to save the file and such.) Please keep keystrokes alphanumerical. I frequently use three types of keyboards; American keyboards, Swedish PC keyboards, and Swedish Sun keyboards. Backticks is generated with `, S-´ and M-' respectively. Most non-alphanumerical keys aren't this bad (someš are even worse, being silent keys depending on what X server and/or terminal emulator used) but most have at least two different ways of being typed, and remembering a alphanumerical key is imho easier, unless it's a well-known symbol (`|' for piping etc). /s [1] Tilde, for example.