Re: S-SPC for non-editing modes

[Juri Linkov]

> But the argument that S-SPC is currently useless because it is unbound is
> not a reason to bind it for this purpose.

It is not unbound, it duplicates SPC.

> Are new users really finding their habits so terribly violated by Emacs that
> we need to make changes such as this? PageUp and PageDown are also used in
> most browsers, and Emacs supports them. How much is enough?

Emacs supports PageUp and PageDown, but in very inconvenient way:
typing PageUp on the first screen doesn't move point to the beginning of
the buffer.

> Go ahead, if you really think it's helpful. If a better use for S-SPC comes
> up, I'll argue to change it then. ;-)

I know a better use, but only for editing modes where S-SPC could insert a
non-breaking space.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/