Re: Proposal: new default bindings for winner and windmove

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2024 08:24:55 -0700
> Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
>  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> 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.

It is a silly idea, forgive my French.  Because Daniel is right:
anyone who already binds the offending keys to some commands will not
be affected by the default binding.  The only case where the default
binding can affect someone is if we _change_ an existing default
binding.  This is not such a case.