[bongo-devel] Re: Marks

[Daniel Jensen]

Daniel Brockman <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Daniel Jensen) writes:
>
>> Daniel Brockman <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> I'm not entirely opposed to the idea, but maybe `r' should
>>> follow the same "process/prefix convention" as `k', `c', et al.?
>>
>> I guess it could, but then I also think I'd want to use `r'
>> on a single line even when there are marked tracks around.
>
> You could always do `1 r' or `C-SPC C-SPC n r'...

Well, sure, there's always a way around things. But my idea was that,
like `RET', `r' is something that should not operate on marked tracks.
Obviously, it's up for debate, but I don't have much more to say about
this. You go ahead with whatever you think is best.

>> The nice thing about `M-&' is that users can use it for
>> things that we never thought of.  Every Bongo command will
>> have support for marks, in a way.
>
> I suppose that's true.  But let's at least try to think
> about which commands should have support for marks.

I can't think of anything now.

I think we have a good set of commands for marks. Adding more stuff in
the future is easy. Now, if only more people would test this ...

> Then of course there are probably other, non-Bongo-specific
> commands which we won't ever think of, --- as you say, ---
> but which some users may eventually want to use with `M-&'.

Yes! I want to use `M-& C-x e'.