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Re: Standardizing more key bindings?
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Standardizing more key bindings? |
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Sun, 04 Oct 2020 10:16:02 +0300 |
> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: dgutov@yandex.ru, thibaut.verron@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2020 23:38:55 -0400
>
> > They could also be defined by prog-mode, which is (or should be) the
> > parent of all programming modes.
>
> There are quite a few programming modes where these operations are not
> useful -- compiled languages which don't have an interpreter.
That's a valid consideration. But does it really invalidate the
proposal? If you don't have a language interpreter to send it a
region of the buffer, then these key sequences will never be used,
because there's no program to send them to. Right?
> Perhaps someday C will have an interpreter. (I tried to get that
> done, 30 years ago.) One could argue that the interpreter keys
> should be kept available for that purpose even in C mode.
There are C interpreters out there, although they are not widespread.
There's also the JIT C compiler in GDB, which can be regarded as a
kind of C interpreter. And then there's 'cdecl', which can be used as
such an interpreter, albeit with very limited capabilities.
So even for a compiled language such as C, this notion would sometimes
make sense, I think.
> On the other hand, those keys might have existing definitions in these
> modes, and finding other bindings for those definitions could be a
> pain. And that would be an incompatible change.
>
> On the gripping hand, it wouldn't be hard to make the specific modes
> override the new prog-mode bindings with their traditional definitions.
>
> So I guess it is ok to put them in prog-mode.
Agreed.
> But that presumes we use just one command to implement each
> of these operations, in all the modes where they are useful.
Yes, I think that's the intention.
Re: Standardizing more key bindings?, Nikolay Kudryavtsev, 2020/10/06
Re: Standardizing more key bindings?, Richard Stallman, 2020/10/07