Re: Proposal: new default bindings for winner and windmove

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Po.

On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 23:15:04 +0800, Po Lu wrote:

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> > Making certain functionality mouse-only is, in fact, contrary to
> > longstanding tradition.

> For the lion's share of users unwilling to use the mouse, other-window
> is perfectly adequate.  Or we would have heard otherwise long ago.

other-window (which I've bound to <f12>) is entirely satisfactory to me,
a user who doesn't like the mouse.

> Whether Alan is a user of Windmove, I don't know, but he does not
> believe it to justify default keybindings in the C-x 4 keymap.

I don't use windmove, no, but I can see its usefulness for some people.

I use <f1>, <f2>, .... to switch to frames F1, F2, ... etc.  I think
that's a tremendously useful facility, more so than windmove, but I'm
not about to be suggesting these bindings should go into the default key
maps.

> I have never used Windmove, because I am perfectly content with the
> status quo.  Eli did not so much as understand your proposal at first.
> No others have referred to having installed keybindings agreeing
> exactly with yours, whatsoever concurrence they might have expressed,
> from which it is easy to conclude that your choices are so universal
> as preferences for text editor or tea versus coffee--that is to say,
> not universal at all.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).