From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Fidler Subject: Re: Keyboard shortcut - is there a principle behind them? Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 14:35:09 +0800 Message-ID: References: <52A192A9.9000202@krugs.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <52A192A9.9000202@krugs.de> Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ess-help-bounces@r-project.org Sender: ess-help-bounces@r-project.org To: Rainer@krugs.de Cc: emacs-org , ess-help@r-project.org List-Id: emacs-orgmode.gnu.org See http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Key-Binding-Conventions.html On Dec 6, 2013 3:02 AM, "Rainer M Krug" wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi > > one alternative subject could be "because it is Friday"... > > I am using org-mode and ess regularly, and I use quite a few keyboard > shortcuts, but each time I read about a new one, I am wondering: why > the heck these specific (default!) keyboard shortcuts? > > I am not asking why keyboard sequence, but e.g. why "export" in org is > C-c e and why tangle is C-c C-v t, and so on. > > In other words: I am trying to *understand* why C-c and not C-o, > because I have tremendous problems to remember the shortcuts - if I > would know that there is s tree structure, where each following key > narrows it down to further *thematically linked* commands, it would > make it easier to learn these. > > Any insight into this? Or is there a emacs function which returns a > random keyboard shortcut for a given function (some emacs shortcuts > really seem to be that way...). > > Thanks, > > Rainer > > > - -- > Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation > Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) > > Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology > Stellenbosch University > South Africa > > Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 > Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 > Fax : +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 > > Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 > > email: Rainer@krugs.de > > Skype: RMkrug > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.22 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSoZKpAAoJENvXNx4PUvmCyp8IAM2uzkocZLD0MVVw/DSI4w7f > ZPFqVBppkzvc5Ef4vuA0Om4ETWqsgYaAs9Tnz3Q3mDGnkZ01yl4/PDGNav/sRGGY > pJs+HElogJCulNrHibh0Ai8X9w29yWZQZnXmPr5lAdmSjTDziUSdUakXte2KkD7O > v+82YoTDAbycUcqK7CUAFNmyNqn5UsXf1h2wYfe6xYaQUPTXnEWsLJAuE3otVE1P > fbmTAbOy+mq+4+2krwp+kCyGU4hoynpJBH1DBUvQgtJeEGYNL2AxYCnm4BU2axwK > qSykHLineyacD4x4RWzEu8uya/P/Q7OSAWQmdsnOT7xqrJo9wxphfrBVefLJb1A= > =BbQi > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ______________________________________________ > ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help