Re: Proposal: new default bindings for winner and windmove

[Daniel Colascione]

On June 26, 2024 9:19:58 AM EDT, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 07:44:19 -0400
>> From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
>> CC: luangruo@yahoo.com, acm@muc.de, stefankangas@gmail.com,
>>  monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On June 26, 2024 7:23:38 AM EDT, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> >I still hope that someone will tell what is exactly the request here,
>> >given that windmove-mode is on by default and its commands are
>> >autoloaded.
>> 
>> To be clear, my proposal is to bind C-x 4 <arrow> in the default global 
>> keymap to the corresponding directional windmove commands and to bind the 
>> shifted versions of these keys to the state swapping versions of these 
>> movement commands. IOW, in emacs -Q, C-x 4 LEFT should move left.
>
>Thanks, but how should we do that without breaking
>windmove-default-keybindings for those users who use it?

... by not touching windmove-default-keybindings, except perhaps to mark it 
obsolete? Adding bindings to the default keymap does not interfere in any way 
with what windmove-default-keybindings does.