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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: adam@alphapapa.net, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [External] : Re: [PATCH] New tab-bar-detach-tab command
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2021 21:28:43 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ily8zo2s.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8735pcu3ot.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Thu, 07 Oct 2021 20:58:05 +0300)

> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com,  adam@alphapapa.net,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2021 20:58:05 +0300
> 
> > Aren't we again giving a key binding to a command without any idea how
> > popular that command will be?  "Stealing" the prefix arg from "C-x 5 2"
> > is even worse, IMO: it's a very old command which we will never
> > remove, and we might one day introduce some optional behavior for it,
> > and use C-u for that.  Why prevent that today on account of a command
> > whose importance is largely unknown (and by default should be
> > considered of low importance, since otherwise how did we manage
> > without it until now?).
> >
> > I say let's remove the "C-x 5 c" binding as long as it isn't too late,
> > and reconsider the command's binding at a later date, when we know
> > more about its importance.
> 
> A command without a keybinding is like a programmer without a computer.

So all the commands we have in Emacs that don't have a binding are in
your opinion useless?

We will never have enough reasonably short key sequences to give a
binding to every command, so expressing such extreme views is not
constructive.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-10-07 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-28 19:09 [PATCH] New tab-bar-detach-tab command Adam Porter
2021-09-29  1:05 ` Matt Beshara
2021-09-29  7:11   ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-29  7:43   ` Adam Porter
2021-09-29  7:09 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-29  7:59   ` Adam Porter
2021-09-29 19:43     ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-29 19:54       ` Adam Porter
2021-10-03 17:19         ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-04 10:34           ` Adam Porter
2021-10-04 17:33             ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-04 19:53               ` Adam Porter
2021-10-05  6:49                 ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-05  7:17                   ` Adam Porter
2021-10-05 15:27                     ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-10-05 16:38                     ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-06 11:23                       ` Adam Porter
2021-10-06 16:38                         ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-07 18:02                           ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-07 18:23                             ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-10-05 15:18                   ` Drew Adams
2021-10-05 16:40                     ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-05 17:27                       ` Drew Adams
2021-10-06 16:39                         ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-06 20:20                           ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-10-07  7:29                             ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-07  7:43                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-07 17:58                                 ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-07 18:19                                   ` Drew Adams
2021-10-07 18:28                                   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-10-07 15:56                               ` Drew Adams
2021-10-05 16:35                 ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-05 15:15               ` [External] : " Drew Adams

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