bug#73544: smerge key bindings awkward

[Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>]

On September 29, 2024 5:33:02 PM PDT, Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev> wrote:
>On 29/09/2024 06:30, Daniel Colascione wrote:
>> In smerge mode, C-c ^ n goes to the next merge conflict. Having resolved all merge conflicts, smerge turns itself off. Typing C-c ^ n again now puts a stray "n" into the buffer. Is there some tweak we can make to avoid this situation? Change the default of smerge-auto-leave?
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>Would it be better if 'C-c ^ n' jumped across files?
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>I.e. effectively called smerge-vc-next-conflict.
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>Not sure if it would always jump to the next file when reaching the end of the current one, or only when all hunks are resolved.
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>Anyway, that approach would require making the bindings global, I think. The prev/next ones, at least.


Sure. If I had my druthers, we'd just enable the C-c ^ keymap globally everywhere all the time and be done with it. That would work whether or not we bound C-c ^ n to smerge-vc-next-conflict or left it as is. The way it is now, we optimize for a false economy of keymap minimalism (putting the smerge keymaps on a minor mode) and minor mode minimalism (disabling smerge mode ASAP gaining essentially nothing and in this vacuous exchange getting the problem I highlighted in the bug report and others.