Re: [External] : Re: POLL: make C-x o transient

[Richard Stallman]

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  > You can look at your own usage after C-x o (even more telling for people
  > who aren't using the mouse or mostly dedicated frames) with view-lossage or
  > via  dribble file, but for me, the answer is "because the cursor is hardly
  > ever in the right spot", even though I do use save-place. I would hazard a
  > guess that wanting to immediately insert a period or comma is roughly the
  > same order of commonality as wanting to insert an 'o' (or 'O').

That seems plausible to me, and that supports my point: each
self-inserting key that we give a special meaning to after C-x o is
one additional nuisance.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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