From: Nicholas Clark Date: 12:23 on 18 Nov 2005 Subject: emacs In a text editor, which action I do more often? A: Set the font for the text? B: Go to a specific line? Place bets now! Correct answer was B. If you bet A, you were wrong. So why the fuck is the default action for Meta-G in emacs "set face"? RMS need to be hit around the head with a Larry Wall(*) until he grasps the principles of Huffman coding. Common actions should be shorter. Nicholas Clark *: Not the real Larry Wall. A 98% replica. Or how however the spam puts it. Heck, even a cardboard cutout would do for this job.
From: Juerd Date: 12:29 on 18 Nov 2005 Subject: Re: emacs Nicholas Clark skribis 2005-11-18 12:23 (+0000): > So why the fuck is the default action for Meta-G in emacs "set face"? > RMS need to be hit around the head with a Larry Wall(*) until he grasps the > principles of Huffman coding. Common actions should be shorter. Or just use vim, where EVERYTHING is huffmanized, even those features you never use! Juerd
From: Aaron Crane Date: 12:34 on 18 Nov 2005 Subject: Re: emacs Nicholas Clark writes: > So why the fuck is the default action for Meta-G in emacs "set face"? > > RMS need to be hit around the head with a Larry Wall(*) until he > grasps the principles of Huffman coding. Common actions should be > shorter. > > *: Not the real Larry Wall. A 98% replica. Or how however the spam > puts it. Heck, even a cardboard cutout would do for this job. Apparently, someone's managed to find something vaguely Larryoid in time for the next version of Emacs: http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/emacs/emacs/etc/NEWS.diff?r1=1.1183&r2=1.1184 So, M-g still doesn't do the obvious thing, but at least M-g M-g does. And that silly font menu isn't in the way any more. All that's needed now is for Emacs 22 to actually get released some time this decade. Not looking too likely, though.
From: Juerd Date: 12:37 on 18 Nov 2005 Subject: Re: emacs Aaron Crane skribis 2005-11-18 12:34 (+0000): > Nicholas Clark writes: > > So why the fuck is the default action for Meta-G in emacs "set face"? > > RMS need to be hit around the head with a Larry Wall(*) until he > > grasps the principles of Huffman coding. Common actions should be > > shorter. > http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/emacs/emacs/etc/NEWS.diff?r1=1.1183&r2=1.1184 > So, M-g still doesn't do the obvious thing, but at least M-g M-g does. But the much more often feature still has more keystrokes than the feature you use once every few years. Juerd
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