Re: Proposal: new default bindings for winner and windmove

[Daniel Colascione]

On 8/21/21 12:23 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
> > Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2021 12:10:16 -0700
> >
> > Today, winner binds C-c LEFT  and C-c RIGHT for window configuration
> > undo and redo, respectively. This set of bindings has three problems:
> >
> >    1) the bindings occupy binding space on important keys, LEFT and
> > RIGHT, for functions that are rarely used,
> >
> > 2) the winner binding space isn't logically connected to window
> > management, and
> >
> > 3) the bindings don't work on terminals without LEFT and RIGHT.
> >
> > How about we set up these bindings instead?
> I'm actually surprised they have key bindings.  How frequently do you
> undo/redo window configuration changes?

I do is pretty often actually --- winner's undo history acts as a task 
stack. When I'm in the middle of working on something and temporarily 
want to do some other thing that changes window configuration --- for 
example, using calc or running some test in a shell buffer --- and I 
want just go back to what I was doing, restoring the window 
configuration is useful. Sure, I can save the window configuration in a 
register instead, but doing that requires forethought and winner doesn't.

> > (Also: is there any reason we shouldn't enable winner by default?)
> Doesn't the tab bar offer a similar functionality?

I don't use the tab bar. I don't like that it takes up screen real 
estate, and I prefer other ways of working with windows.