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Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default
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Ted Zlatanov |
Subject: |
Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default |
Date: |
Fri, 08 Oct 2010 08:53:16 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 04:26:18 +0200 Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden> wrote:
ÓF> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:
>> Leaving the cursor keys to behave like normal, for instance? That would
>> be very unsurprising, but the usefulness is debatable. Sometimes
>> avoiding driving the user crazy is better than maximum usefulness.
ÓF> Moving the cursor left and right adds zero convenience while using
ÓF> ibuffer, it is wasting two keys. OTOH, by assigning them for jumping
ÓF> from one filtering group to another they become somewhat useful. I agree
ÓF> with you and Miles about the "surprisingness", but after two minutes of
ÓF> using ibuffer you are no longer surprised and later maybe you will
ÓF> appreciate having two extra keys that actually do some work.
ÓF> If you say that it not only is surprising but also annoying, I'll have
ÓF> to ask why you feel compelled to use left/right cursor movements on
ÓF> ibuffer.
The convention is to use TAB and M-TAB to move between groups of items
(which would apply here).
I need to use left/right cursor movement all the time to copy things.
It's really annoying when they are rebound. w3m-mode does that too IIRC.
Ted
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, (continued)
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/10/07
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, Miles Bader, 2010/10/07
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/10/07
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, Óscar Fuentes, 2010/10/07
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, Miles Bader, 2010/10/07
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/10/07
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, Óscar Fuentes, 2010/10/07
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/10/07
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, Óscar Fuentes, 2010/10/07
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, David Kastrup, 2010/10/08
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default,
Ted Zlatanov <=
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/10/08
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/10/08
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, Miles Bader, 2010/10/08
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, Dan Nicolaescu, 2010/10/08
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, Sergei Organov, 2010/10/08
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/10/08
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, Sergei Organov, 2010/10/08
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, Chong Yidong, 2010/10/09
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, Dan Nicolaescu, 2010/10/09
- Re: binding ibuffer to C-x C-b by default, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/10/09