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bug#44611: Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#44611: Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref |
Date: |
Thu, 24 Dec 2020 19:44:37 +0200 |
> Cc: juri@linkov.net, joaotavora@gmail.com, 44611@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 23:24:23 +0200
>
> On 23.12.2020 22:30, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > If you want to continue this discussion, please drop the attitude and
> > try to see the issue from my POV. Otherwise I see no reason to
> > continue, as I've-been-there-done-that too many times.
>
> Could you try seeing it from my POV?
>
> This is the first time I've heard about a rule like that regarding key
> bindings (and not just changes in existing functions, ones that would
> break existing configurations and third-party code). If I knew about it,
> I wouldn't have approved that key binding in the first place, those 4
> years ago. Because "we can't change it later" is a pretty high standard
> for acceptance.
>
> And now it feels like you're like changing the rules under my feet. It's
> not a good way to make a subsystem maintainer feel.
There is no new rule. I apologize if something I said could be
interpreted that way.
There's only one rule: not to make backward-incompatible changes
without a very good reason. That is not limited to changes in
functions and APIs, key bindings are definitely included. In fact, I
think incompatible changes in key bindings are even worse than changes
in code, since they might go against muscle memory, and nothing can
fix that except a long and painful process of unlearning.
I've reviewed all the NEWS since v24.1, and found only one
incompatible change in key bindings -- which started by declaring the
existing binding obsolete. So I think we change key bindings in
incompatible ways only very rarely and carefully, and that is a Good
Thing.
Given the single precedent I found, I'm fine with declaring the
current binding of TAB obsolete and providing a replacement for it
('b'? 'q'?), so that we could replace it in some future version after
28, if that is okay with you and Juri.
- bug#44611: Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref, (continued)
- bug#44611: Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/12/22
- bug#44611: Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref, Juri Linkov, 2020/12/22
- bug#44611: Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/12/23
- bug#44611: Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/12/23
- bug#44611: Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/12/23
- bug#44611: Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/12/23
- bug#44611: Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/12/23
- bug#44611: Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/12/23
- bug#44611: Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/12/23
- bug#44611: Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/12/23
- bug#44611: Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#44611: Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref, Juri Linkov, 2020/12/24
- bug#44611: Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/12/24
- bug#44611: Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref, Juri Linkov, 2020/12/25
- bug#44611: Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/12/25
- bug#44611: Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/12/25
- bug#44611: Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref, Juri Linkov, 2020/12/27
- bug#44611: Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref, martin rudalics, 2020/12/27
- bug#44611: Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/12/27
- bug#44611: Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref, Juri Linkov, 2020/12/28
- bug#44611: Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref, Juri Linkov, 2020/12/27