eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) (06/02/88)
In email, ford@kenobi writes: >In kenobi!/u/gnu/emacs/lisp/term/s4.el, you wrote: >> ;; by: Eric S. Raymond == {ihnp4,rutgers,seismo}!cbmvax!snark!eric >> >> (define-key esc-map "9" 'beginning-of-buffer) ;'Begin' >> (define-key esc-map "0" 'end-of-buffer) ;'End' > >This (obviously) causes meta-0 and meta-9 to do completely different >things than their documented meanings, and I don't see any reason for >it. What good are digit-arguments if they can only contain the digits >1 through 8? I never get bit by this because (like most ex-gosmacs users) I always use C-u as my arg prefix. I didn't even know ESC was a valid alternate arg-prefix until investigating this bug report of yours. Nevertheless, here I am officially notifying the world and the gnumacs maintainers that they might want to change this... -- Eric S. Raymond (the mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews) UUCP: {{uunet,rutgers,ihnp4}!cbmvax,rutgers!vu-vlsi,att}!snark!eric Post: 22 South Warren Avenue, Malvern, PA 19355 Phone: (215)-296-5718
barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin) (06/04/88)
In article <22a53eb1!3d57@snark.UUCP> eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) writes: >I never get bit by this because (like most ex-gosmacs users) I always use C-u >as my arg prefix. I didn't even know ESC was a valid alternate arg-prefix >until investigating this bug report of yours. Nevertheless, here I am >officially notifying the world and the gnumacs maintainers that they might want >to change this... That's a bit egocentric of you. I don't know which came first, Meta-<digit> or C-u, but I know that both were available in the original ITS EMACS as long ago as 1979, when I first started using it. If Gosling Emacs didn't support Meta-<digit>, it's the first such implementation I've heard of. I think it would be wrong to change a long-standing, standard Emacs key binding because a couple of obscure terminals happen to send that for a function key (I assume that's what started this, as I missed the early discussion). Barry Margolin Thinking Machines Corp. barmar@think.com uunet!think!barmar
eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) (06/05/88)
In article <21604@think.uucp>, Barry Margolin writes: > In article <22a53eb1!3d57@snark.UUCP> Eric S. Raymond writes: > >Nevertheless, here I am officially notifying the world and the gnumacs > >maintainers that they might want to change this... > > That's a bit egocentric of you. ... I think it would be wrong to change a > long-standing, standard Emacs key binding because a couple of obscure > terminals happen to send that for a function key (I assume that's what > started this, as I missed the early discussion). No no, I meant I thought the gnumacs maintainers might want to change the s4.el they distribute! You assume incorrectly, I'm not *that* egotistic.... ;-) -- Eric S. Raymond (the mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews) UUCP: {{uunet,rutgers,ihnp4}!cbmvax,rutgers!vu-vlsi,att}!snark!eric Post: 22 South Warren Avenue, Malvern, PA 19355 Phone: (215)-296-5718