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Re: Control help- and Info-mode buffers from other buffers
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
Re: Control help- and Info-mode buffers from other buffers |
Date: |
Fri, 02 Jun 2023 09:34:50 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/30.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
> Basically that these were two discussions, one where Juri asked me about my
> experiences about running commands in other windows, and one about the
> patch. Juri dislike the idea of wrapping all commands into
> with-selected-window
> and is trying to find a way to transfer command execution to other window
> without need to wrap commands explicitly as I understand him, which I hope he
> will find.
If you ask me what would be an ideal UI, "UI of a dream", then
the answer is obvious. Emacs already has such a rudimentary UI.
It works perfectly, but currently is limited to a tiny set of commands.
The key point of the existing "do-in-other-window" UI is that
no additional prefix keys are required, only a modifier key
to hold down while typing other-window navigation keys.
The current modifier key is 'M-'. So while holding down the ALT key
you can use the navigation keys 'PgUp', 'PgDn', 'Home', 'End'
that browse the buffer in another window. While doing this,
a natural wish appears to enable more navigation keys.
Why not enable arrow keys as well? Why only 'M-PgUp' is supported,
but not 'M-up'? Maybe the answer is that then some keys would conflict
with default keybindings, for example, with 'M-left'.
Such kind of problems found solutions in windmove. For its
numerous keys it's possible to choose a dedicated modifier,
or a combination of modifiers.
So in the perfect UI, you could just hold down a modifier,
then type the usual keys that you would type if another window
was selected.
- Re: Control help- and Info-mode buffers from other buffers, (continued)
- Re: Control help- and Info-mode buffers from other buffers, Arthur Miller, 2023/06/01
- Re: Control help- and Info-mode buffers from other buffers, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/06/01
- Re: Control help- and Info-mode buffers from other buffers, Arthur Miller, 2023/06/01
- Re: Control help- and Info-mode buffers from other buffers, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/06/01
- Re: Control help- and Info-mode buffers from other buffers, Arthur Miller, 2023/06/02
- Re: Control help- and Info-mode buffers from other buffers,
Juri Linkov <=
- Re: Control help- and Info-mode buffers from other buffers, Arthur Miller, 2023/06/02
- Re: Control help- and Info-mode buffers from other buffers, Yuri Khan, 2023/06/02
- Re: Control help- and Info-mode buffers from other buffers, Juri Linkov, 2023/06/02
- Re: Control help- and Info-mode buffers from other buffers, Arthur Miller, 2023/06/04
- Re: Control help- and Info-mode buffers from other buffers, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/06/02
- Re: Control help- and Info-mode buffers from other buffers, Arthur Miller, 2023/06/02
- Re: Control help- and Info-mode buffers from other buffers, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/06/02
- Re: Control help- and Info-mode buffers from other buffers, Arthur Miller, 2023/06/03
- Re: Control help- and Info-mode buffers from other buffers, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/06/03
- Re: Control help- and Info-mode buffers from other buffers, Arthur Miller, 2023/06/03