Re: Proposal: new default bindings for winner and windmove

[Daniel Colascione]

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> Hello, Dmitry.
>
> On Tue, Jul 02, 2024 at 22:53:00 +0300, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
>> On 02/07/2024 21:34, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>> > This brings me back to my point about being careful about making default
>> > bindings.  It would seem next/previous-buffer-other-window, whether yet
>> > existing or not, have a greater claim on C-x 4 <right>/<left> than the
>> > windmove functions...
>
>> If they were useful enough, perhaps - though that doesn't seem to be the 
>> case, given that those commands haven't been added by now.
>
> That would be a judgment call, not something black and white.  My guess
> is that next/previous-buffer-other-window would be very useful indeed to
> a small number of users.  Much like the windmove functions will be
> useful to some users.
>
> I can't help but think we're shooting ourselves in the foot by having
> C-x <binding> and C-x 4 <binding> which don't do the same thing in
> different windows.
>
> Which brings us back again to the question why C-x 4 <arrow>?  As
> somebody (you, perhaps?) mentioned, we have C-x w bindings for window
> operations.  Why not C-x w <arrow> instead?

I think 4 is slightly easier to hit than w because the former is at the
top of the keyboard and so has a Fitts's law advantage.  That said, I
could support C-x w <arrow> too.  I'll change my private bindings and
my patch and see how it goes.