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Re: "whether the global keymap C-x 4 will be replaced by a command,"
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: "whether the global keymap C-x 4 will be replaced by a command," |
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Fri, 17 Jul 2020 21:54:07 -0400 |
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> > For consistency, C-h k C-x 4 C-f should show the help for C-x 4 C-f.
> > That is find-file-other-window.
> A special handling of prefix commands could be added to the
> implementation of 'C-h k'.
> Then instead of saying that the command is 'find-file-other-window',
> it could say: "the command is like 'find-file' but displays the buffer
> in another window."
That would address this issue.
> > C-x 4 C-f is an important command -- don't break it!
> Its effect should remain the same (displaying the output buffer in
> another window), but the command namespace will be cleaner by removing
> duplicated commands with '-other-window' and '-other-frame' suffixes.
I see.
That would handle C-x 4 C-f ok, but someone pointed out there is also
C-x 4 f. People would not like it if that started to do C-x f in another
window.
So I think there needs to be a exception list, a way of defining a few
key sequences starting with C-x 4 so that they depart from the usual
rule and maintain backwards compatibility instead.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
- Re: "whether the global keymap C-x 4 will be replaced by a command,", (continued)
- Re: "whether the global keymap C-x 4 will be replaced by a command,", Richard Stallman, 2020/07/15
- Re: "whether the global keymap C-x 4 will be replaced by a command,", Eli Zaretskii, 2020/07/16
- Re: "whether the global keymap C-x 4 will be replaced by a command,", Juri Linkov, 2020/07/16
- RE: "whether the global keymap C-x 4 will be replaced by a command,", Drew Adams, 2020/07/16
- Re: "whether the global keymap C-x 4 will be replaced by a command,", Richard Stallman, 2020/07/17
- Re: "whether the global keymap C-x 4 will be replaced by a command,", Sean Whitton, 2020/07/18
- RE: "whether the global keymap C-x 4 will be replaced by a command,", Drew Adams, 2020/07/18
- Re: "whether the global keymap C-x 4 will be replaced by a command,", Richard Stallman, 2020/07/18
- RE: "whether the global keymap C-x 4 will be replaced by a command,", Drew Adams, 2020/07/19
- Re: "whether the global keymap C-x 4 will be replaced by a command,", Sean Whitton, 2020/07/20
- Re: "whether the global keymap C-x 4 will be replaced by a command,",
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: "whether the global keymap C-x 4 will be replaced by a command,", Juri Linkov, 2020/07/18
- RE: "whether the global keymap C-x 4 will be replaced by a command,", Drew Adams, 2020/07/18
- Re: "whether the global keymap C-x 4 will be replaced by a command,", Stefan Monnier, 2020/07/18
- Re: "whether the global keymap C-x 4 will be replaced by a command,", Juri Linkov, 2020/07/19
- Re: "whether the global keymap C-x 4 will be replaced by a command,", Stefan Monnier, 2020/07/19
- Re: "whether the global keymap C-x 4 will be replaced by a command,", Juri Linkov, 2020/07/20
- Re: "whether the global keymap C-x 4 will be replaced by a command,", Richard Stallman, 2020/07/19
- Re: "whether the global keymap C-x 4 will be replaced by a command,", Stefan Monnier, 2020/07/19
- Re: "whether the global keymap C-x 4 will be replaced by a command,", Richard Stallman, 2020/07/14
- Re: "whether the global keymap C-x 4 will be replaced by a command,", Barry Fishman, 2020/07/19