Re: how about a find-library-other-window command?

[storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)]

David House <dmhouse@gmail.com> writes:

> Richard Stallman writes:
>  > I do not want anything that would replace C-x 4 f and similar
>  > commands with four-character sequences. 
>
> I would be happy with a system whereby C-x 4 <key> was equivalent to C-x <key>
> in the other window, so that find-file-other-window becomes C-x 4 C-f (as it is
> also currently) and C-x 4 f is set-fill-column-other-window. The latter perhaps
> isn't that useful, but for consistency's sake, it should be that.
>
> In other words we make a copy of ctrl-x-map and put it on C-x 4, but with every
> command having its effects in the other window.
>
> -- 
> -David House, dmhouse@gmail.com

Not that I care a lot about this, but...

Most of the relevant find-file-.... functions will eventually call switch-to-buffer,
switch-to-buffer-other-window, or switch-to-buffer-other-frame.

Now, if switch-to-buffer looked at the keys used to invoke the current
command, it could DTRT if command invoked with a C-x 4 or C-x 5 prefix
vs. a plain C-x prefix.

If we don't want to do it at the C level (in switch-to-buffer), we
could create a new switch-to-buffer-dwim that could be used in
find-file, and friends.

Then would could simply put find-file on C-x 4 f and C-x 5 f and have it
dtrt.

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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk