Re: Unuseful keybindings

[Kevin Rodgers]

On 12/23/12 9:55 AM, Drew Adams wrote:
> > > There is absolutely no reason for Emacs to bind `f3' and
> > `f4' by default.
> >
> > I have no problem rebinding `f3' to `kill-this-buffer', and `f4' to
> > `dired-jump' in ~/.emacs so they work like in GNU Midnight Commander
> > (now I use Dired instead of MC, but old habits for keys persist ;-)
>
> No, they should be UNbound.  That's the point.
> Your proposal is a case of "out of the frying pan and into the fire".

I think Juri meant that he does not have an issue with whatever default
binding for f3 and f4 is provided by Emacs, because he can rebind them
in his personal ~/.emacs.

FWIW, I agree with Drew's main point, that specific function keys should not
be given default bindings without discussion of the general issues.

...

> > Regarding `f11', the reason why it's a good change is to provide
> > compatibility in Emacs between graphical displays and text terminals.
> > In xterm while running `emacs -nw' typing `f11' toggles Full
> > Screen mode, but on graphical displays this failed until recent addition
> > of the `f11' keybinding.
>
> Again, a pretty weak reason.  But better than what's been given so far.
>
> There are other differences between text terminal keys and graphic terminal
> keys.  And `xterm' is not all text terminals, IIUC (please correct me if I'm
> mistaken).

Seems like a good reason to me.  Is there a policy by the Emacs developers, to
actively work to minimize the differences between text and graphic frames?

--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA