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C-n and C-a
From: |
Richard M Stallman |
Subject: |
C-n and C-a |
Date: |
Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:32:12 -0500 |
The new definitions of C-n and C-p seem to work reasonably
conveniently with the very long lines that non-Emacs-users often
write. However, it is very counterintuitive that C-a and C-e have not
been changed in the same way. They keep surprising me, and I have to
work hard to remember not to use them to do the natural thing.
I think they too should be changed to operate on screen lines;
that's a necessary part of the change that was already made.
If C-a and C-e are changed this way, we would want some way to go to
the beginning and end of the real line. Here are some ideas:
* Make C-u C-a and C-u C-e do this. I suspect nobody uses
those combinations with their current meanings.
* Make M-{ and M-} treat each line as a paragraph. That would be the
right thing for them to do in such text. This would require either a
minor mode or detecting long-line text heuristically.
What do others think?
- C-n and C-a,
Richard M Stallman <=
- Re: C-n and C-a, Tassilo Horn, 2009/01/29
- Re: C-n and C-a, Harald Hanche-Olsen, 2009/01/29
- Re: C-n and C-a, Adrian Robert, 2009/01/29
- Re: C-n and C-a, Juri Linkov, 2009/01/29
- Re: C-n and C-a, Stefan Monnier, 2009/01/29
- Re: C-n and C-a, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/01/30
- Re: C-n and C-a, Juri Linkov, 2009/01/31
- Re: C-n and C-a, Stefan Monnier, 2009/01/31
- Re: C-n and C-a, Chong Yidong, 2009/01/31