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Re: S-SPC for non-editing modes
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Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
Re: S-SPC for non-editing modes |
Date: |
Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:59:16 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> But the argument that S-SPC is currently useless because it is unbound is
> not a reason to bind it for this purpose.
It is not unbound, it duplicates SPC.
> Are new users really finding their habits so terribly violated by Emacs that
> we need to make changes such as this? PageUp and PageDown are also used in
> most browsers, and Emacs supports them. How much is enough?
Emacs supports PageUp and PageDown, but in very inconvenient way:
typing PageUp on the first screen doesn't move point to the beginning of
the buffer.
> Go ahead, if you really think it's helpful. If a better use for S-SPC comes
> up, I'll argue to change it then. ;-)
I know a better use, but only for editing modes where S-SPC could insert a
non-breaking space.
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Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
Re: TAB for non-editing modes, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/22