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Re: Will default key bindings spell the death of Emacs?


From: Kai Großjohann
Subject: Re: Will default key bindings spell the death of Emacs?
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 07:19:07 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux)

Tak Ota <address@hidden> writes:

> Is it worth considering as a long term development item to introduce a
> notion layer between key sequence and function?  Each mode package
> binds a notion to a function instead of a key sequence to a function
> in its local map.  The key sequence to notion binding is defined
> elsewhere.  This way if a user binds some other key sequence than C-n
> to "next" it applies to entire emacs living environment including but
> not limited to next-line.

Emacs has this already, in a way.  C-d is perceived as a generic
deletion command, and <delete> also invokes it.

It's kind of weird to consider concrete bindings to be notions, as
well, but then, why not?  There is not *so* much gain from having
better names.
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