Re: header-sensitive beginning-of-line?

[Benjamin Rutt <rutt+news@cis.ohio-state.edu>]

Karl Eichwalder <ke@gnu.franken.de> writes:

> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
>> On the Emacs-devel mailing list, something similar (but for shell
>> mode) was discussed.  Maybe it is a good idea to make shell-mode and
>> message-mode behave the same in this respect?
>
> Thought about that, too, but the matters are disjunct.  There are cases
> when you want to delete the whole line in message mode (at the moment
> this works best pressing `C-a C-k C-k'), but no brave soul has the need
> to delete the promt in shell mode.
>
> Please, don't change the default in message mode.

The default has already been changed in Oort CVS.  (FYI, two
successive C-a's should get you to BOL if the first one didn't).

I know that I personally delete header values much more often than I
delete entire headers.  So for me, the new key binding saves me
keystrokes.  However, for others, this may not be true.

Perhaps we need a variable which allows users to customize whether
message-bol takes them to the beginning of line or beginning of
header?  I think we have reached a point where it should be left to
the user to decide this.
-- 
Benjamin