And now for something completely different

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an cúigiú lá de mí Meitheamh, scríobh David Kastrup: 

 > [...] Some first suggestions in the core area might be font-locking,
 > startup options, encoding detection, the follow-link stuff, the M-g
 > prefix and maybe some search&replace stuff (if that's not synched
 > already: the ability to put Lisp code into regexp replacements with \,
 > has enthused some people, but then I would be susceptible to notice).

Yeah, that (the Lisp code in regexp replacements) looks awesome.

M-g as goto-line seems eminently suited and always has. The GNU Emacs build
of a couple of months ago lists these as the M-g bindings: 

M-g g		goto-line
M-g n		next-error
M-g p		previous-error
M-g M-g		goto-line
M-g M-n		next-error
M-g M-p		previous-error

Were you referring to something else? That seems kind of underwhelming. 

 > Anyway, it might be worth going through the etc/NEWS file available at
 > <URL:http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/emacs/etc/NEWS?root=emacs&view=markup&pathrev=EMACS_22_BASE>
 > and seeing whether something particularly interesting strikes the eye.

Thank you for the pointer!

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