Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!spolsky-avram From: spolsky-avram@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: assorted questions Message-ID: <38598@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Date: 22 Sep 88 23:51:24 GMT References:Sender: root@yale.UUCP Reply-To: spolsky@yale.edu (Joel Spolsky) Distribution: comp Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT 06520-2158 Lines: 29 In article mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Mike DeCorte) writes: | 2) When you are at the bottom (top) of a buffer and execute scroll-up | (scroll-down), emacs responds with "End of buffer" ("Beginning of | buffer"). Wouldn't it make a bit more sense (at least from the | users point of view) to go to the bottom (top) of the file? I vote for this one!!! It makes more sense by a long shot. It is more instinctive to hit Page Up a couple of times than to try and hit Meta-SHIFT-< (what with remembering which shift keys to use...:-) While we're on the subject, when I first started using emacs, I thought I would get used to ^K not deleting the newlines. Needless to say I still haven't gotten use to this: I generally delete paragraphs and other such regions by hitting ^K a few times (which is more instinctive, I think, than blocking it off), and the "stutter" effect is aggravating. Especially since this means that M-5 C-k does not mean the same thing as C-k C-k C-k C-k C-k ... Any suggestions for fixes? | 5) An emacs manual would be REALLY nice to have. It's in the package! online! in a dozen happy formats! Joel Spolsky bitnet: spolsky@yalecs uucp: ...!yale!spolsky Yale University arpa: spolsky@yale.edu voicenet: 203-436-1483 "You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!!"