RE: [External] : Re: POLL: make C-x o transient

[Gregory Heytings]

> Why on earth would we want to sacrifice two keys by default: one for 
> repeatable `other-window' and one for non-repeatable?
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> [...]
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> But default bindings for both repeatable and non-repeatable would be a 
> ridiculous waste (IMHO). to the beginning of the previous line...

My proposal is not to bind C-= to a repeatable other-window, which would 
indeed be ridiculous.

It is to bind C-= to the existing "repeat" command, which is already in 
Emacs, does what has been suggested in this thread (repeat the last 
command with its argument, display a message in echo area, and handle 
universal argument), but is I believe underused. It needs to be bound to a 
single keystroke to be used at its full power: otherwise it is not 
possible to change the prefix argument between two repeats.

I expected that this C-= binding would not please everyone, for example 
because some already bind it to another command. This would be the case 
with virtually any possible key binding. But it's only a default binding, 
and those who already use C-= for another purpose, or would not like that 
binding for one reason or another, can bind "repeat" to something else.