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Re: [CVS] f7, f8 bound..
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Kim F. Storm |
Subject: |
Re: [CVS] f7, f8 bound.. |
Date: |
27 Aug 2002 10:55:15 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/address@hidden> writes:
> > > I checked out CVS today.
> > >
> > > unfortunately, the latest CVS seems to have keys f7 and f8 bounded to
> > > kmacro commands. The keys f5--f9 are supposed to be reserved for
> > > users. (and my .emacs relies on these conventions).
> > >
> >
> > I can see that is a problem.
> >
> > I need to bind them to two adjacent function keys, but maybe we should
> > move them to f3 and f4 instead ?
>
> Please don't use Fn keys. It's very non-intuitive.
But its so much simpler to use...
Although I can see that there is more "sense" in the C-x (, C-x ), and
C-x e bindings, they are just way too cumbersome to type.
I.e. I have to hit 4 keys to type C-x (, type the macro, then hit 4
keys to type C-x ), and finally 3 keys to type C-x e for every call of
the macro.
This means that keyboard macros are simply not used as much as they
could be with simpler bindings. Compare the above with: hit f3, type
the macro, hit f4, and then hit f4 for every invocation of the macro.
In any case, I haven't removed the old bindings, just *supplemented*
them with a much more efficient interfaces based on using two function
keys.
So the question is not whether to use function keys, but which ones
to use by default. If I don't hear any objections to using f3 and f4,
I'll make the change.
> By the way, how about making C-x e e e e e e repeat like
> C-x z z z z z does ?
Try C-x C-k C-k C-k.... :-)
--
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk
- [CVS] f7, f8 bound.., D . Goel, 2002/08/23
- Re: [CVS] f7, f8 bound.., Kim F. Storm, 2002/08/25
- Re: [CVS] f7, f8 bound.., D . Goel, 2002/08/25
- Re: [CVS] f7, f8 bound.., Stefan Monnier, 2002/08/26
- Re: [CVS] f7, f8 bound..,
Kim F. Storm <=
- Re: [CVS] f7, f8 bound.., Juanma Barranquero, 2002/08/27
- Re: [CVS] f7, f8 bound.., Kim F. Storm, 2002/08/27
- Re: [CVS] f7, f8 bound.., Juanma Barranquero, 2002/08/27
- Re: [CVS] f7, f8 bound.., Kim F. Storm, 2002/08/27
- Re: [CVS] f7, f8 bound.., Juanma Barranquero, 2002/08/27
- Re: [CVS] f7, f8 bound.., Stefan Monnier, 2002/08/27
- Re: [CVS] f7, f8 bound.., Miles Bader, 2002/08/27
- Re: [CVS] f7, f8 bound.., Kim F. Storm, 2002/08/28
- Re: [CVS] f7, f8 bound.., Miles Bader, 2002/08/28
- Re: [CVS] f7, f8 bound.., Juanma Barranquero, 2002/08/28