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Re: [External] : Adding a binding for 'undo-redo'
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Alfred M. Szmidt |
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Re: [External] : Adding a binding for 'undo-redo' |
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Thu, 30 Sep 2021 03:13:15 -0400 |
> The "technical hurdle" of finding a good binding
> isn't the place to start. The place to start is
> to wait for users to use and bind it, and then
> see how much a default binding would make sense.
>
> Here lies chaos.
>
> For coherent design, and logical keybindings, one cannot wait until
> users have bound a key. It is a good indication of what might be
> used, but not what might make sense in the grand picture.
There may not be a reason to always wait - agreed.
("One cannot wait" ever is clearly wrong, though.)
It doesn't follow that every command should get a
default key binding. And how new the redo command
is isn't really the question, on its own.
Nobody is suggesting that, and even if it was a suggestion it might
make sense -- if keyboards had more modifiers, more keys, that would
allow for a mapping of all commands to keybindings.
The question really should be how useful the command
is, in practice: How much are users using it, and how
important would it be for it to have a default binding?
That is always a call someone has to make, and ultimatley what you
find useful, I might not. There are many keybindings in Emacs that I
do not use.
The command and keybindings seem useful enough in my eyes, but I won't
use them.
- Re: Adding a binding for 'undo-redo', (continued)