Re: Binding M-n and M-p to forward-paragraph and backward-paragraphrespectively

[Lennart Borgman]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Leo writes:
>
>  > On the other hand, advertising M-n/p as global keys for users to
>  > customise might be better than provide default bindings.
>
> A big -1 on that.  C-c <letter> is reserved to users.  That's not very
> many, but OTOH it's a very clear, and by now fairly well-known, and
> very simple, rule.  Advertising random keys as available just because
> they're not currently bound would be confusing and constraining.
>
> I'm a small :-) -1 on the present proposal to bind M-n/M-p to
> paragraph movement because they already have bindings in the default
> global keymap.  I am aware that M-} is not easy to type on many
> keyboards, and binding M-n to forward-paragraph would be a great
> customization for people who prefer those layouts.  OTOH, there may be
> other reasonable bindings (eg, I bind a command that rotates the tabs,
> as I often have 2-3 times as many related buffers as can reasonably
> fit on the tabs).

+1