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Re: [External] : Re: POLL: make C-x o transient
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: [External] : Re: POLL: make C-x o transient |
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Thu, 04 Feb 2021 00:44:40 -0500 |
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> You can look at your own usage after C-x o (even more telling for people
> who aren't using the mouse or mostly dedicated frames) with view-lossage or
> via dribble file, but for me, the answer is "because the cursor is hardly
> ever in the right spot", even though I do use save-place. I would hazard a
> guess that wanting to immediately insert a period or comma is roughly the
> same order of commonality as wanting to insert an 'o' (or 'O').
That seems plausible to me, and that supports my point: each
self-inserting key that we give a special meaning to after C-x o is
one additional nuisance.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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- Re: POLL: make C-x o transient, (continued)
- Re: POLL: make C-x o transient, Gregory Heytings, 2021/02/05
- Re: POLL: make C-x o transient, Juri Linkov, 2021/02/05
- Re: POLL: make C-x o transient, Gregory Heytings, 2021/02/05
- Re: POLL: make C-x o transient, Juri Linkov, 2021/02/06
- Re: POLL: make C-x o transient, Gregory Heytings, 2021/02/06
- Re: POLL: make C-x o transient, Stefan Monnier, 2021/02/06
- Re: POLL: make C-x o transient, Ergus, 2021/02/06
- Re: POLL: make C-x o transient, Juri Linkov, 2021/02/07
Re: [External] : Re: POLL: make C-x o transient, Richard Stallman, 2021/02/03