[slime-devel] Re: New user, and keybindings revisited

[Luke Gorrie]

Helmut Eller <e9626484 at stud3.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

> I like our current bindings.
[...]
> I'd say we add optional etags compatibility stuff, but make our
> bindings the default.

Agreed.

To really make etags users happy requires a lot of extra touches that
I don't like myself, e.g. always prompting for the tag. People with
well-trained etags reflexes seem to always do `M-. RET' to find a
definition, so with our non-prompting interface they'd jump to the
definition and then accidentally insert a newline. (Seen this a lot
with friends using Distel, which has the same tags bindings as SLIME.)

So let's go our own current way by default and support etags-style
bindings/prompting as a configuration option for people whose fingers
are already trained.

-Luke