From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, manuel@ledu-giraud.fr, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Control help- and Info-mode buffers from other buffers
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2023 09:34:50 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86zg5ixuv1.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM9PR09MB4977C1BCFD886AFCE90F86CD964EA@AM9PR09MB4977.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com> (Arthur Miller's message of "Fri, 02 Jun 2023 03:26:26 +0200")
> Basically that these were two discussions, one where Juri asked me about my
> experiences about running commands in other windows, and one about the
> patch. Juri dislike the idea of wrapping all commands into with-selected-window
> and is trying to find a way to transfer command execution to other window
> without need to wrap commands explicitly as I understand him, which I hope he
> will find.
If you ask me what would be an ideal UI, "UI of a dream", then
the answer is obvious. Emacs already has such a rudimentary UI.
It works perfectly, but currently is limited to a tiny set of commands.
The key point of the existing "do-in-other-window" UI is that
no additional prefix keys are required, only a modifier key
to hold down while typing other-window navigation keys.
The current modifier key is 'M-'. So while holding down the ALT key
you can use the navigation keys 'PgUp', 'PgDn', 'Home', 'End'
that browse the buffer in another window. While doing this,
a natural wish appears to enable more navigation keys.
Why not enable arrow keys as well? Why only 'M-PgUp' is supported,
but not 'M-up'? Maybe the answer is that then some keys would conflict
with default keybindings, for example, with 'M-left'.
Such kind of problems found solutions in windmove. For its
numerous keys it's possible to choose a dedicated modifier,
or a combination of modifiers.
So in the perfect UI, you could just hold down a modifier,
then type the usual keys that you would type if another window
was selected.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-02 6:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-30 5:38 Control help- and Info-mode buffers from other buffers Arthur Miller
2023-05-30 12:54 ` Manuel Giraud via Emacs development discussions.
2023-05-30 13:31 ` Arthur Miller
2023-05-30 15:22 ` Manuel Giraud via Emacs development discussions.
2023-05-30 17:29 ` Juri Linkov
2023-05-31 5:55 ` Arthur Miller
2023-05-31 17:13 ` Juri Linkov
2023-06-01 3:16 ` Arthur Miller
2023-06-01 6:35 ` Juri Linkov
2023-06-01 7:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-01 7:20 ` Juri Linkov
2023-06-01 9:03 ` Arthur Miller
2023-06-01 9:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-01 14:01 ` Arthur Miller
2023-06-01 9:16 ` Arthur Miller
2023-06-01 9:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-01 13:45 ` Arthur Miller
2023-06-01 16:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-02 1:26 ` Arthur Miller
2023-06-02 6:34 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2023-06-02 15:11 ` Arthur Miller
2023-06-02 15:29 ` Yuri Khan
2023-06-02 16:32 ` Juri Linkov
2023-06-04 14:09 ` Arthur Miller
2023-06-02 7:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-02 15:09 ` Arthur Miller
2023-06-02 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-03 13:53 ` Arthur Miller
2023-06-03 14:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-03 15:06 ` Arthur Miller
2023-06-03 15:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-04 14:19 ` Arthur Miller
2023-06-04 14:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-04 7:52 ` Juri Linkov
2023-06-04 14:04 ` Arthur Miller
2023-06-04 16:50 ` Juri Linkov
2023-06-02 16:13 ` Juri Linkov
2023-06-03 13:49 ` Manuel Giraud via Emacs development discussions.
2023-06-04 7:44 ` Juri Linkov
2023-06-04 8:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-04 13:40 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2023-06-04 13:53 ` Arthur Miller
2023-06-04 14:00 ` Drew Adams
2023-06-04 14:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-04 13:38 ` Manuel Giraud via Emacs development discussions.
2023-06-04 7:48 ` Juri Linkov
2023-06-01 8:50 ` Arthur Miller
2023-06-01 10:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-01 11:33 ` Arthur Miller
2023-06-01 16:39 ` Juri Linkov
2023-06-01 19:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-02 1:10 ` Arthur Miller
2023-06-02 6:32 ` Juri Linkov
2023-06-04 14:41 ` Arthur Miller
2023-06-04 16:54 ` Juri Linkov
2023-06-01 6:31 ` Juri Linkov
2023-05-30 16:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-31 6:38 ` Arthur Miller
2023-05-30 18:04 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2023-05-31 6:06 ` Arthur Miller
2023-05-31 13:00 ` Drew Adams
2023-05-31 13:27 ` Arthur Miller
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