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Re: Key-binding clash between gnus and calc
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Miles Bader |
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Re: Key-binding clash between gnus and calc |
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Wed, 16 Nov 2005 04:08:44 +0900 |
2005/11/16, Sascha Wilde <address@hidden>:
> This is about a inconsistency in emacs which should be fixed. calc is
> part of GNU emacs and it uses and documents M-# as a global binding,
> while gnus -- part of gnu emacs, too -- binds it locally. Of cause I
> can use a custom binding for calc as Jay suggested (and in fact, it's
> what I'm doing for now), but I think the TRTTD would be to change
> either binding. Global default bindings in emacs should be global.
Both bindings are really old, and are quite commonly used; changing
either one may cause more harm (read: piss off more people) than good.
It's hardly a tragedy to have to use "M-x calc" when in a gnus
summary buffer.
However, I think if one _must_ be changed, it should be calc, becuase
calc until now has always been an extra add-on to Emacs, and for that
reason probably used by many fewer people than gnus (which has been a
part of emacs for a long time). Morever, if I recall correctly,
historically the M-# binding for calc has been more of a "suggestion"
than anything else (I seem to remember that the calc installation
instructions told the user to bind it himself).
[Disclaimer: I always use M-x calc anyway, I don't care much about
M-# for calc...]
-miles
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- Key-binding clash between gnus and calc, Sascha Wilde, 2005/11/15
- Re: Key-binding clash between gnus and calc, David Kastrup, 2005/11/15
- Re: Key-binding clash between gnus and calc, Sascha Wilde, 2005/11/15
- Re: Key-binding clash between gnus and calc, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/11/16
- Re: Key-binding clash between gnus and calc, Jay Belanger, 2005/11/16
- Re: Key-binding clash between gnus and calc, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/11/17
- Re: Key-binding clash between gnus and calc, Robert J. Chassell, 2005/11/17
- Re: Key-binding clash between gnus and calc, Jay Belanger, 2005/11/17
- Re: Key-binding clash between gnus and calc, David Kastrup, 2005/11/17
- Re: Key-binding clash between gnus and calc, Robert J. Chassell, 2005/11/19
- Re: Key-binding clash between gnus and calc, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/11/20
- Re: Key-binding clash between gnus and calc, Jay Belanger, 2005/11/20