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Re: How to bind isearch-repeat-forward to F3 in a certain mode only?


From: Marcin Borkowski
Subject: Re: How to bind isearch-repeat-forward to F3 in a certain mode only?
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 03:02:06 +0200

On 2015-07-28, at 01:45, Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> wrote:

> Don't use the F* keys:
>
>     1. They are lousy keys that are too far away
>        (reaching + resetting hand necessary) - they
>        don't even have their own designations.
>        People seldom use them and never remember what
>        they do. They are like the Siberia of the
>        keyboard; only real Siberia is much more
>        interesting (tho equally remote, wide, and
>        foggily unclear).

Love this quote.  Even though it's not true.

Many people are quite accustomed to hitting F3 for "find the next
occurrence".  (Also, many people are quite accustomed to hitting F5 to
copy, F6 to move files, F7 to create directories and F8 to delete
files...)

>     2. They don't work everywhere.

True.  OTOH, what I want to bind to F3 is fully accessible on plain old C-s.

> Conclusion: keep out!

I see no reason!

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University



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