Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ucla-cs!zen!ucbvax!ICST-CMR.ARPA!rbj From: rbj@ICST-CMR.ARPA (Root Boy Jim) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: find-file-read-only-other-window Message-ID: <8707061905.AA01444@icst-cmr.arpa.ARPA> Date: Mon, 6-Jul-87 15:05:22 EDT Article-I.D.: icst-cmr.8707061905.AA01444 Posted: Mon Jul 6 15:05:22 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Jul-87 02:45:54 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 29 ? The most frustrating lack of orthogonality in GNU Emacs for me has been the ? lack of a combination of find-file-read-only and find-file-other window. ? So - a simple elisp function to share with you all: Given the `view' package, why would you want to do a `find-file-read-only-ANYWHERE'? I would restate your case as `I want "view-file-other-window"'. Now might be a good time to complain about a few misfeatures to view. First, the help is limited. I often have to switch windows to describe variables and functions. Also, ^A, ^B, ^E, and ^F don't work. Why? They seem like reasonably innocuous things to do. Further, some integration of the movement commands should be made in the view/dired/buffer-menu/edit-options/whatever modes. Most are relatively consistent, but why doesn't `p' map to ^P and `n' map to ^N in buffer menu mode? ? -- ? John Owens Old Dominion University - Norfolk, Virginia, USA ? john@ODU.EDU old arpa: john%odu.edu@RELAY.CS.NET ? +1 804 440 4529 old uucp: {seismo,harvard,sun,hoptoad}!xanth!john ? (Root Boy) Jim CottrellNational Bureau of Standards Flamer's Hotline: (301) 975-5688 I want to kill everyone here with a cute colorful Hydrogen Bomb!!