Re: Key binding M-g should really be goto-line (To M-g M-g or not to M-g)

[Jari Aalto]

| >David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
| > no previous desire, not fitting the feature
| > freeze.  Is this a plot to distract people from releasing?
| 
| IMO, it is a reasonable opportunity to DTRT before locking M-g down as
| a single command-key only.

Juri made interesting suggestings, and I would see it beneficial if
future be taken into consideration as well.

M-g  prefix sounds good for future additions.
M-g M-g for goto-line sounds fast enough, because it's same key.

| > C-x ` completely sucks as a keybinding on many international
| > keyboards.  We need a new keybinding alternative at some point of
| > time.  But M-g is clean out, in my opinion.  Really.
| 
| Why?  I think it is excellent.  Good mnemonic.

As keyboards all over the world differ greatly, any use of the exotic
punctuation character can cause lot of trouble. These include:

    `
    ½
    §
    ^
    ~
    @
    
And even these are sometimes problematic on TTY connections
(and even worse with modifiers)

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Jari