On Tuesday, May 25, 2004 at 11:51:00, Stefan Reichör wrote:
> Hi Milan!
> 
> > Please don't use arrow keys for non-movement commands in xtla
> > major modes.  This is very unemacsish, inconvenient and confusing.

Well it is unemacsish, but inconvenient and confusing?
We could argue a lot on that, actually I added them as
they are convenient and intuitive, at least to me. 

> > For instance, I run `M-x tla-archives' and want to copy an archive
> > name to the kill ring.  So I try to move with arrow keys to the
> > name and oops, pressing <right> starts network connection to fetch
> > the archive categories and pops new window.  If I liked to see the
> > categories, I would press Enter.  Why to bind it additionally to
> > another key?  The same applies to <left> there.
> 
> I don't like them also.
> What do others think?
> 
> Robert, I think you introduced that kind of bindings.

Yeah it was me.  I never had a need to copy the archive name
or something else (: and when I would use forward-word and
backward-word or the like not left/right :) and in the other
cases I use the mouse to have it in the xselection buffer.

Felt it was much more convenient than ^ (you need to press
two key on an American keyboard), RET, n and p, since the
cursor keys are all at the same location and thus made
browsing of (local) archives much faster.

Then ALSO up/down should be unbound, as they are not moving
up/down a line but to the next item?

IMHO would be more convenient to allow a binding copying the
THING at point to the kill-ring, no need for you to set the
mark, move around and add it to the kill-ring.

> It would be o.k. to have an user option (default: nil) for that kind
> of bindings: tla-use-arrow-keys-for-navigation

Sounds reasonable, but isn't it something like a
micro-theme for bindings breaking your demand for

On , May 24, 2004 at 21:21:13, Stefan Reichör wrote:
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> I think, we should define only ONE consistent binding scheme!

;c)

Robert

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