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RE: master 97cb255: newcomment.el (comment-line): New command on C-x C-;


From: Drew Adams
Subject: RE: master 97cb255: newcomment.el (comment-line): New command on C-x C-; .
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 22:21:27 -0800 (PST)

> Yes, I did give it a try and it was a conscious decision, but let me start by 
> saying I didn't put a huge amount of thought into it. 
> There were three factors that made me choose this:
> 1. Reversing direction while going up can also be done by just hitting some 
> harmless key like C-a (for this particular command, C-a is harmless). That 
> takes the same number of keys as C-- and has the same effect. In some cases 
> (when you're moving one line at a time), `undo' will also do what you want 
> with even less keys. 
> 2. A good portion of users won't expect it to behave like that (even if it's 
> written in the doc). This also applies to the current version, but see below. 
> 3. Unlike the current "persistent negative argument effect", this "reverse 
> direction twice" functionality seems like it would come up very rarely, 
> probably less than the number of times it would catch someone by surprise. 
> Combine 3 with the fact that it has perfectly plausible alternatives for 
> those instances when it does come up, and that's I why I decided this way. 
> As I said, I just thought of this very briefly. Items 2 and 3 are really just 
> hunches.

Like I said:

>> It won't be the first time I will have my own local version of
>> something.



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