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Re: address@hidden: asymmetries and contradictions in shell navigation u
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Kim F. Storm |
Subject: |
Re: address@hidden: asymmetries and contradictions in shell navigation using C-a and C-e on a prompt line] |
Date: |
18 Mar 2002 17:59:07 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.50 |
Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
> address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> > What happens if you have two fields next to each other -- in that
> > case, the inside of one field is the outside the other field - and
> > vice versa.
>
> This is not a problem. The only important case is where one of these
> commands would from `outside' to `inside' in a way that's counter-intuitive.
I don't understand. How does emacs know when it's currently in an important
case...
>
> > > Unfortunately, the most common use of fields currently is in the
> > > minibuffer, and it uses a `nil' field property as the `inside'
> > > (and puts a non-nil field property on the prompt, to distinguish it).
> >
> > Which indicates to me that your proposed solutions isn't the right one.
>
> Why?
I said 'indicates' -- as the major example of using this feature doesn't
work, and need to be reworked using more machinery (rather than less).
>
> > But we already handle the minibuffer correctly, so this
> > will continue to work
>
> No, the minibuffer suffers from the same `problem' that comint does.
> It's just not commonly enountered by users, because they usually don't
> move into the prompt.
Ok, but it sometimes does make sense to navigate inside the prompt.
C-e -> goto end of prompt (= start of input), another C-e -> go to
end of input. Isn't that how it's working now?
>
> > if we don't start messing up the existing movement & killing
> > functions!!!
>
> What are you talking about?
I thought you were proposing to change, end-of-line and other
commands to behave differently if point is "inside" a field. I
referred to that as "messy" (compared to doing it through
command remapping).
--
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk
Re: address@hidden: asymmetries and contradictions in shell navigation using C-a and C-e on a prompt line], Richard Stallman, 2002/03/19
Re: address@hidden: asymmetries and contradictions in shell navigation using C-a and C-e on a prompt line], Richard Stallman, 2002/03/18