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28.0.50; [Feature Request] Handle goto-map digit as goto-line

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From: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd <at> md5i.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 28.0.50; [Feature Request] Handle goto-map digit as goto-line
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 22:16:29 -0500

I recommend that the ten decimal digits be bound in `goto-map' to a
function that calls `goto-line', bringing up a prompt with the given
digit as the default value.  For example:

`M-g 4' should result in the following prompt:

  Goto line: 4!

where ! represents the location of the point.  I've implemented this in
my init file, but as I have had difficulty getting a legal disclaimer
from my employer in the past (they want to have every single change go
to the lawyers separately), I'm holding back on sending any
implementation.

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Michael Welsh Duggan
(md5i <at> md5i.com)

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd <at> md5i.com>
Cc: 46167 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#46167: 28.0.50; [Feature Request] Handle goto-map digit as
 goto-line
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 06:34:21 +0100

Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd <at> md5i.com> writes:

> I recommend that the ten decimal digits be bound in `goto-map' to a
> function that calls `goto-line', bringing up a prompt with the given
> digit as the default value.  For example:
>
> `M-g 4' should result in the following prompt:
>
>   Goto line: 4!
>
> where ! represents the location of the point.

We've recently had a long discussion about `goto-line' vs
`goto-line-relative', and some people prefer the one and some people the
other.  `M-g 4' (etc) would have to choose one or the other.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd <at> md5i.com>
Cc: 46167 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#46167: 28.0.50; [Feature Request] Handle goto-map digit as
 goto-line
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 10:47:10 +0200

> I recommend that the ten decimal digits be bound in `goto-map' to a
> function that calls `goto-line', bringing up a prompt with the given
> digit as the default value.  For example:
>
> `M-g 4' should result in the following prompt:
>
>   Goto line: 4!
>
> where ! represents the location of the point.  I've implemented this in
> my init file, but as I have had difficulty getting a legal disclaimer
> from my employer in the past (they want to have every single change go
> to the lawyers separately), I'm holding back on sending any
> implementation.

Fortunately, it's already easy to go to e.g. line 42 by typing just

  42gg

while holding the Meta key, i.e. M-4 M-2 M-g M-g.

Message #14 received at 46167 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd <at> md5i.com>, 46167 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#46167: 28.0.50; [Feature Request] Handle goto-map digit as
 goto-line
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2021 10:24:42 +0100

Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net> writes:

> Fortunately, it's already easy to go to e.g. line 42 by typing just
>
>   42gg
>
> while holding the Meta key, i.e. M-4 M-2 M-g M-g.

Yeah, I guess there's no reason to add yet another way to enter the line
number.  And this is a more general way, because it also works for
`goto-line-relative', which some people prefer.

So I'm closing this bug report.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

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