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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:295225 Archived-At: Hello, On Mon 12 Sep 2022 at 10:29PM +03, Juri Linkov wrote: >>> Of course, it'd also be nice to bring together/closer the root and >>> non-root variants of those operations, but I have no good suggestion >>> here, other than to suggest to use a new command which doesn't accept >>> a numeric argument at all and only uses `C-u` to choose between a root >>> split and non-root split. That's because I personally never use that >>> numeric argument, and prefer to resize the windows afterwards rather >>> than try to guess sizes beforehand. > > The existing commands could use `C-u` to choose between root/non-root too. > Then there is no need to have a new command. Yes, I still prefer this myself, I think. >> This seems especially important given that the -root-window- >> commands are not going to see heavy use, compared with, e.g., >> fit-window-to-buffer (where C-x w - follows C-x -). >> >> (2) again given that the -root-window- commands will be rarely used, I >> think the similarity with the existing commands will make 'C-x w 2' >> and 'C-x w 3' easier to memorise / recall-with-effort. > > Since they will be rarely used, they could be bound to a more consistent > key sequence 'C-x w r 2' and 'C-x w r 3' where "w r" means "window-root", > freeing 'C-x w 2' and 'C-x w 3' for other uses. That would definitely make sense if we are expecting some other root window commands -- do you have some ideas? -- Sean Whitton