From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rainer M Krug Subject: Keyboard shortcut - is there a principle behind them? Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2013 10:02:33 +0100 Message-ID: <52A192A9.9000202@krugs.de> Reply-To: Rainer@krugs.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40796) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VorJ4-0001OG-AK for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Dec 2013 04:02:47 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VorIy-0005Yk-TS for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Dec 2013 04:02:42 -0500 Received: from mail-wg0-f41.google.com ([74.125.82.41]:48841) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VorIy-0005Ye-O2 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Dec 2013 04:02:36 -0500 Received: by mail-wg0-f41.google.com with SMTP id y10so589505wgg.0 for ; Fri, 06 Dec 2013 01:02:35 -0800 (PST) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode , "ess-help@r-project.org" -----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-----