From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master 6a2ee981c3: Add new functions for splitting the root window Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2022 21:01:36 +0300 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <868rmvxdvj.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <166240424802.11417.12502552895310232639@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> <20220905185728.838CEC0088A@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> <86h71kseiw.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87illzmjew.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="23797"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Hugo Heagren To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 07 20:07:12 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oVzSB-00061T-QR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2022 20:07:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49692 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oVzSA-00051N-MJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2022 14:07:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34912) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oVzO4-0002Zr-H8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2022 14:02:58 -0400 Original-Received: from relay11.mail.gandi.net ([2001:4b98:dc4:8::231]:37671) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oVzO3-00006Q-4N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2022 14:02:56 -0400 Original-Received: (Authenticated sender: juri@linkov.net) by mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8650F100004; Wed, 7 Sep 2022 18:02:51 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <87illzmjew.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Wed, 07 Sep 2022 14:57:27 +0200") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2001:4b98:dc4:8::231; envelope-from=juri@linkov.net; helo=relay11.mail.gandi.net X-Spam_score_int: -25 X-Spam_score: -2.6 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:294860 Archived-At: >> Taking one of the most easy to type keys 'C-x 7' and 'C-x 9' >> for such rarely used commands? Really? Wouldn't it better >> to use a negative prefix arg of the existing commands, >> e.g. 'C-- C-x 2' without specifying the size of the root window, >> or 'C-u -25 C-x 2'. > > I thought that all the sensible prefixes to those commands were taken, > but if that's possible, then that's a better solution. Oh, I didn't expect all prefixes are taken, too bad. Maybe then better to bind them to a common prefix key? E.g. 'C-x r 2' and 'C-x r 3'.