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Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default
From: |
David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default |
Date: |
Fri, 08 Oct 2010 08:48:22 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden> writes:
> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>>> That's even more annoying. I hate having my cursor keys rebound to
>>>> surprising actions.
>>>
>>> What would be the unsurprising (and not useless) behavior here?
>>
>> Leaving the cursor keys to behave like normal, for instance? That would
>> be very unsurprising, but the usefulness is debatable. Sometimes
>> avoiding driving the user crazy is better than maximum usefulness.
>
> Moving the cursor left and right adds zero convenience while using
> ibuffer, it is wasting two keys.
Miles did not discover their binding by throwing the cat at the
keyboard, I presume. Obviously he _did_ want to do something with the
cursor movement keys (like moving to a file name part in order to cut
and paste), and that did not work. So "wasting" is clearly hyperbole.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, (continued)
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, Miles Bader, 2010/10/07
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/10/07
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, Miles Bader, 2010/10/07
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/10/07
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, Óscar Fuentes, 2010/10/07
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, Miles Bader, 2010/10/07
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/10/07
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, Óscar Fuentes, 2010/10/07
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/10/07
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, Óscar Fuentes, 2010/10/07
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/10/08
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/10/08
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/10/08
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, Miles Bader, 2010/10/08
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, Dan Nicolaescu, 2010/10/08
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, Sergei Organov, 2010/10/08
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/10/08
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, Sergei Organov, 2010/10/08
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, Chong Yidong, 2010/10/09
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, Dan Nicolaescu, 2010/10/09