Re: Proposal: new default bindings for winner and windmove

[Daniel Colascione]

On 8/22/21 1:37 AM, Juri Linkov wrote:
> > How about we set up these bindings instead?
> >
> > C-x 4 C-/ winner-undo
> >
> > M-- C-x 4 C-/ winner-redo
> >
> > This way, a winner undo has the same binding as editing undo, but under C-x
> > 4, which means window management stuff.
> >
> > (Also: is there any reason we shouldn't enable winner by default?)
> >
> > Likewise, for windmove, we can bind C-x 4 {left, right, up, down} and DWIM
> > for people automatically, enabled by default.
> This reminds the recent development of the context menu.
> The idea to enable the context menu by default was nice
> where quickly clicking mouse-3 will retain its current functionality
> of operating on the region, but after a delay to pop up the menu.
> But in practice such artificial delay is a hassle - no one would have
> patience to wait even half a second until the menu finally appears.
>
> The same applies to longer keybindings.  It would be nice to provide the
> default long keybindings, but they are unusable for frequent usage because
> require more time to type the keys.  So maybe longer keybindings could be
> set only to "advertise" the availability of such feature until the package
> is loaded and defines shorter keys.

Isn't this advertisement implicit in the whole structure of Emacs? You 
can take *any* command and bind it to whatever shortcut-key you want. 
That the command exists at all is an advertisement.

(And if we're talking about long annoying default advertisements, C-u 
C-x ~ for going to the previous error is more annoying.)