Re: How to bind isearch-repeat-forward to F3 in a certain mode only?

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2015-07-28, at 10:42, Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 2:00:45 PM UTC+5:30, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
>> On 2015-07-28, at 02:26, Ian Zimmerman  wrote:
>> 
>> > A bit more seriously, I mostly agree with Emanuel.  F3 in particular may
>> > be problematic because of [1] (unfortunately hidden away and so often
>> > overlooked).  The exceptions are F10 for menu and F1 for help, which are
>> > well established hard to replace with single-keystroke bindings.
>> 
>> Funnily, of a few Fn bindings present in (my) Emacs, F1 and F10 are
>> among those I *never* use...  Help is C-h for me, and I haven't used the
>> menu for more than decade.  And I explained the rationale behind my idea
>> of binding F3 in an earlier post.
>> 
>> BTW, how do you guys use keyboard macros?  "C-x (", "C-x )" and "C-x e"
>> are so inconvenient compared to F3 and F4...
>> 
>> (OK, this Emanuel doesn't have to answer this last question - he doesn't
>> use kbd macros, and doesn't even know what he misses;-);-);-).)
>> 
>> > [1]
>> > https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Key-Binding-Conventions.html#Key-Binding-Conventions
>
> I am actually a bit surprised by Ian's quoting the above page.
> AIUI that is for *elisp library developers* to keep some order in keybindings
> If an *individual user* is prevented (even suggested) to not use da-da
> to do de-de, then what's the point of emacs really and its famed 
> customizability?

To be fair, I intend to publish my code.

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University