Re: Proposal: new default bindings for winner and windmove

[Philip Kaludercic]

Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:

> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
>> A few years ago, Daniel suggested:
>>> Likewise, for windmove, we can bind C-x 4 {left, right, up, down} and DWIM
>>> for people automatically, enabled by default.
>>
>> AFAICT we still don't actually provide any keybindings for the windmove
>> commands by default.  Did I miss a controversy about that, or did it
>> just fall through the cracks?
>
> FWIW, I don't remember any controversy either, so my guess is that it
> just fell through the cracks.

I didn't manage to read the entire thread, but isn't the main issue with
C-x 4 <arrow key> that it is a relatively long key chord with a certain
travel distance on the keyboard for a quick operation?  If it is easier
to press C-x o a few times (which `repeat-mode' makes even easier), then
there is little point in adding a default binding, I feel.

I personally bind the keys directly to arrow keys, but this is not
really a practical solution for OOTB bindings.  But C-c <arrow> is not
bound by default, not are they reserved if I am reading (elisp) Key
Binding Conventions correctly.  The main issue is that winner-mode uses
C-c {left,right} when loaded, by default.  So perhaps C-c C-<arrow>,
which is easy to type and repeat?

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