Re: Proposal: new default bindings for winner and windmove

[Daniel Colascione]

On July 2, 2024 2:50:38 AM EDT, Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> wrote:
>>> Thus, I don't think I see any compelling reason not to go ahead with
>>> this change.  I would propose that we now start discussing the specifics
>>> of how to go about doing that (patches, proposed alternative solutions).
>>
>> How's this?
>>
>> +@kindex C-x 4 LEFT
>> +@kindex C-x 4 RIGHT
>> +@kindex C-x 4 UP
>> +@kindex C-x 4 DOWN
>
>I can't believe someone might want to use such long key sequences
>for one of the most frequent actions.  It's even longer than
>'C-x o' it's supposed to improve. 

It's an improvement on C-x o for some use cases because it's more predictable, 
not because it's shorter. Besides, the key sequence isn't even that hard to 
type. Have you tried it?

> I think there are no better keys
>for switching windows than arrows with a modifier.

I use these and they're fine. The problem with binding a modifier with bare 
arrow keys is that all sorts of customizations and modes bind these already. 
C-x 4 is vacant, logical, and short enough.

>Since all keybindings in the 'C-x 4' keymap are for commands
>that display a buffer in another window, 'C-x 4 LEFT/...'
>could do the same to display the buffer of the next command
>in the specified window.

Such a command doesn't exist and doesn't sound particularly useful to me. 
Putting window management under C-x 4 makes logical sense.