Re: Suggestion: Mapping of M-g should be goto-line

[Joachim Nilsson]

On 03/25/04 13:27, Jari Aalto+mail.emacs wrote:
> * 2004-03-25 David Kastrup <dak <AT> gnu.org> mail.default.spool
> | jari.aalto <AT> poboxes.com (Jari Aalto+mail.emacs) writes:
> | >         The "de facto" situation for long has been that everybody
> | >         maps M-g to goto-line. People advice that in newsgroups,
> | >         because it is indeed the most logical key.
> | Seconded.  If no other binding can be found, we can override it in
> | enriched text mode with a local binding, but as a global binding,
> | goto-line is certainly much more generally useful.
> If possible, we really want M-g, because of "g", goto. Using any other
> key would counter what people have been already using. And it should
> be one key.  If it were two keys, people would never use it. They
> would map it right back to "M-g".

I too agree that a keybinding for goto-line is useful.  Like the
original poster I used M-g as well, but since 21.3 I have a new
setup where I use M-# instead.  To me that is equally intuitive,
but clashes with calc-dispatch -- so whatever is decided the risk
of a key already being bound is always present in Emacs.

Personally I've actually started getting used to "M-g *" for setting
faces when I write in LaTeX.  I find it very useful actually.

My reason for having a keybinding at all for goto-line is that I find
myself often supporting code over the telephone and I don't think we
have a mode for that yet in Emacs. :)


Regards
 /Joachim