Re: Proposal: new default bindings for winner and windmove

[Stefan Kangas]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org> writes:
>
>> So? Nobody is preventing those users doing what they want with their
>> key bindings.  You're making a general purpose argument against having
>> default key bindings at all. Why don't we just ship Emacs with an
>> empty global keymap so we're not imposing on anyone?
>
> Replace "having" with "introducing" and you should find that this line
> of argument is generally sound.  After all these years, all the commands
> that justify being bound by default have already received bindings in
> the default keymaps, and plenty of commands that are well in excess of
> this criterion.

We are not going to impose a general embargo on new keybindings.
This idea has been proposed and rejected in the past.

So we will have to consider every proposal individually.  This might
include some amount of bikeshedding.  Sorry.