Re: Proposal: new default bindings for winner and windmove

[Daniel Colascione]

On June 26, 2024 11:38:32 AM EDT, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 09:57:30 -0400
>> From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
>> CC: jb@jeremybryant.net, luangruo@yahoo.com, acm@muc.de, 
>> stefankangas@gmail.com,
>>  monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> 
>> >> 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.
>> >
>> >Thanks, but how should we do that without breaking
>> >windmove-default-keybindings for those users who use it?
>> 
>> ... by not touching windmove-default-keybindings, except perhaps to mark it 
>> obsolete? Adding bindings to the default keymap does not interfere in any 
>> way with what windmove-default-keybindings does.
>
>So people who use windmove-default-keybindings will now have these
>commands bound to more than one key sequence?  

Yeah. This situation strikes me as only slightly ugly though, and I don't see 
another way to reconcile the compatibility constraints with adding new 
keybindings. Would we remove the global C-x 4 bindings when someone called 
windmove-default-keybindings? That doesn't strike me as the surprise-minimizing 
option.

I hoped we could come
>up with a more elegant solution.