Re: Proposal: new default bindings for winner and windmove

[Daniel Colascione]

[Re-sending: accidentally sent narrow reply]

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
> Hello, Dmitry.
>
> On Mon, Jul 01, 2024 at 14:25:51 +0300, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
>> Hi Alan,
>
>> On 01/07/2024 13:07, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>> > The above is true, but it misses the point.  That point is that once the
>> > Emacs maintenance team has added a_default_  binding, that can never in
>> > the future be changed.  People will scream "backward compatibility"
>> > until the heat death of the universe.
>
>> People screaming "backward compatibility" for each and every reason can 
>> indeed be a problem.
>
> Yes, but it's a difficult problem.  I would be screaming if somebody
> suggested removing the bindings C-o or C-M-o, for example.  I use these
> all the time.  But if I were the only user of them, it would be
> difficult to argue for their retention in the default key map.

I still think we need to find a better binding for C-o, FWIW.
I recognize I'm in the minority on this position though, but still, I
think I've used C-o maybe once or twice ever.

What do you use it for?

> On the other hand, C-x w h (highlight-regexp) already has a "more
> modern" binding M-s h r, so although I wouldn't be enthused about the
> removal of C-x w h, I wouldn't object to it either.

What do you think of my previous keybindings-editions proposal?

>> We should be able to change default key bindings more freely than we do now.
>
> Yes, but...  Every time we do this, we're upsetting _sombody_'s work
> flow.  I don't see any way of getting this increased freedom to change.

I love how https://xkcd.com/1172/ is about us.