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RE: Binding M-n and M-p toforward-paragraphandbackward-paragraphrespect
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Davis Herring |
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RE: Binding M-n and M-p toforward-paragraphandbackward-paragraphrespectively |
Date: |
Thu, 7 Apr 2011 20:13:50 -0700 (PDT) |
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>> It just makes sense with the global idea that C- is for
>> atomic movements, and M- for group movement.
>
> That might be an argument for users to bind it, but that in itself is not
> an argument for Emacs to bind it by default. And it is certainly not an
> argument to bind it to some specific key (which one?).
FWIW, it is an argument for that last point: C-b is backward a character,
and M-b a word; C-a is beginning of line, and M-a of sentence; it makes
perfect sense for C-n to be next line and M-n to be next paragraph. That
doesn't mean we should do it, but that's why M-n makes sense for it.
Davis
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- Binding M-n and M-p to forward-paragraph and backward-paragraph respectively, Deniz Dogan, 2011/04/07
- RE: Binding M-n and M-p to forward-paragraph and backward-paragraphrespectively, Drew Adams, 2011/04/07
- Re: Binding M-n and M-p to forward-paragraph and backward-paragraphrespectively, Sean Sieger, 2011/04/07
- RE: Binding M-n and M-p to forward-paragraph andbackward-paragraphrespectively, Drew Adams, 2011/04/07
- Re: Binding M-n and M-p to forward-paragraph andbackward-paragraphrespectively, Sean Sieger, 2011/04/07
- RE: Binding M-n and M-p to forward-paragraphandbackward-paragraphrespectively, Drew Adams, 2011/04/07
- Re: Binding M-n and M-p to forward-paragraphandbackward-paragraphrespectively, Sean Sieger, 2011/04/07
- Re: Binding M-n and M-p to forward-paragraphandbackward-paragraphrespectively, Antoine Levitt, 2011/04/07
- RE: Binding M-n and M-p toforward-paragraphandbackward-paragraphrespectively, Drew Adams, 2011/04/07
- RE: Binding M-n and M-p toforward-paragraphandbackward-paragraphrespectively,
Davis Herring <=
- Re: Binding M-n and M-p toforward-paragraphandbackward-paragraphrespectively, Andreas Röhler, 2011/04/08
- Re: Binding M-n and M-p to forward-paragraphandbackward-paragraphrespectively, David De La Harpe Golden, 2011/04/07
- Re: Binding M-n and M-p to forward-paragraphandbackward-paragraphrespectively, Antoine Levitt, 2011/04/08
- Re: Binding M-n and M-p to forward-paragraphandbackward-paragraphrespectively, Lennart Borgman, 2011/04/08
Re: Binding M-n and M-p to forward-paragraph and backward-paragraph respectively, Stefan Monnier, 2011/04/08