RE: [External] : Re: Proposal: new default bindings for winner and windmove

[Drew Adams]

> > I'm going to ask a dangerous question: do people use the existing
> > bindings for "C-x <right>" and "C-x <left>"?
> 
> That's next-buffer and previous-buffer.  No, I don't use them, mainly
> through not being aware of them.  They could come in handy, though, when
> looking at N buffers in M windows, with M < N.  I've been in that
> position quite a lot in the last few months.
> 
> Why do we not have next-buffer-other-window and
> previous-buffer-other-window?  Why don't we have
> ....-other-frame?

In my 40 years of using Emacs, I don't think
I've ever used `next-buffer' and the like.

I use `C-x b' (or `C-x 4 b' or `C-x 5 b') and
`M-n' or `M-p'.  As a bonus, the prompt tells
me what the buffer will be.

I'm happy to see that `mouse-1' and `mouse-3'
on the current buffer name in a mode-line do
the previous and next buffer things, by
default.  That's especially good for newbies,
I imagine.  But I have no need for the `C-x'
followed by arrow-key bindings.

That said, I'm not suggesting we bind those
keys to something else.  (I wouldn't mind if
they were "liberated" to the No-Default Free
List, however.)