Re: Proposal: new default bindings for winner and windmove

[Daniel Colascione]

On June 26, 2024 7:23:38 AM EDT, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Jeremy Bryant <jb@jeremybryant.net>
>> Cc: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>,  dancol@dancol.org,  acm@muc.de,
>>   stefankangas@gmail.com,  monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 22:26:47 +0100
>> 
>> 1.
>> I also find that C-x 4 is indeed logical, which makes it easier to remember
>> 
>> 2.
>> C-x 4 .. works on the terminal/console.  This is important for
>> preserving functionality of Emacs.
>
>I still hope that someone will tell what is exactly the request here,
>given that windmove-mode is on by default and its commands are
>autoloaded.

To be clear, my proposal is to bind C-x 4 <arrow> in the default global keymap 
to the corresponding directional windmove commands and to bind the shifted 
versions of these keys to the state swapping versions of these movement 
commands. IOW, in emacs -Q, C-x 4 LEFT should move left.