Re: [CVS] f7, f8 bound..

[Kim F. Storm]

Francesco Potorti` <address@hidden> writes:

> Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
>    I would _love_ an interface like that -- it's definitely true that it's
>    currently very annoying to hit `C-x e' repeatedly.
> 
> When I create a macro, I always put a C-xq command in it, and end it
> with M-0C-x), so it repeats indefinitely until I press SPC and stops as
> soon as I press C-g.
> 
> This behaviour could be made standard for kmacro, perhaps, without the
> need of putting a C-xq inside the macro just for this purpose.

I think setting the new kmacro-call-repeat-key to `? ' will mostly do exactly
what you want.


> If we want to make life easier for newbies, for example, F2 and F3 are
> traditionally used to open a file (find-file) and save it (save-buffer),
> and F4 to select a block (set-mark-command).

traditionally in what environment?


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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk