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Re: Caveats on remapping keys
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Neon Absentius |
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Re: Caveats on remapping keys |
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Wed, 9 Mar 2005 18:29:53 +0000 |
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On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 06:53:34PM -0900, Tim Johnson wrote:
> Hello:
> >You won't be able to use them to provide prefix arguments to commands.
> >For example, `M-7 C-n' moves down 7 lines, but not if M-7 is bound
> >to something other than digit-argument.
>
> Correct. However, on my keyboards, 'C-7 C-n' does the same and is
> more natural to my hands. It would appear that rebinding 'M-7' wouldn't
> be too awful, you think?
>
I find the M-5 (for arbitrary values of 5) binding very convenient
when I want to evaluate an expression and put the result at point,
M-7 M-: is easier to type than C-7 M-: similarly for commands like
"shell-command-in-region" etc.
I don't know how much of an inconvenience that would cause you though.
> Thanks Kevin
> tim
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