Re: $ collision

[Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com>]

Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:

> Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:
>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>>> I recently bound `$' to `gnus-summary-mark-as-spam', but nnmairix uses
>>> this command for its keymap.
>
>>> So we either have to remove the `gnus-summary-mark-as-spam' binding, or
>>> more the nnmairix keys somewhere else.  Thoughts?
>
>> Is M-d not the standard for mark as spam? Why another binding that
>> causes conflicts?
>
> I was the one who requested that.  There are two main reasons.  First,
> marking things as spam is a very common action (at least for me, and I
> think for anyone who uses the spam filtering bits), and M-d is two
> keystrokes if one is using Emacs in an xterm, which I often do when I'm
> travelling.  Second, nearly all the other marks (!, ?, #, *, etc.) can be
> added by pressing the character for the mark, so it seemed to make sense
> for consistency.
>
> I don't really care what that one key is, although $ does seem to make the
> most sense; I mostly just wanted to have one key I could press to mark
> things as spam.

keyboard dependant I guess. $ is a shifted key for me and M-d seems
pretty instantaneous for someone using and familiar emacs.