Re: Proposal: new default bindings for winner and windmove

[Joel Reicher]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org> writes:
>
> > Because it's useful to navigate windows positionally as well as 
> > temporally. Other-window often has unpredictable effects and 
> > navigating with windmove DWIM.
>
> Most users will for this purpose use the mouse, if there is 
> really such a number of windows that navigating with 
> other-window is impractical.
>
> I'm disposed to say that this situation seldom appears in 
> practice, or we should have received proposals to grant windmove 
> default keybindings much earlier.  And don't let's be given a 
> lecture as to the inherent incompatibility of the mouse with 
> Emacs's ethos or some such.

Please can we err on the side of *choice*.

I for one very much enjoy staying away from the mouse and 
navigating four or more windows with windmove, but I can well 
imagine some others may use the mouse.

I don't think it's necessary to guess at the majority, and I think 
it improves the experience for everyone if we don't.

Thanks and regards,

      - Joel