C-o (was: Proposal: new default bindings for winner and windmove)

["Johan Myréen" <johan.myreen@gmail.com>]

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> I can see someone doing C-o foo bar but I don't see the benefit compared
> to foo bar RET


The benefit is that C-o opens a new blank line to type on, instead of
prepending what you are writing to the pre-existing text on the line, which
I find very distracting. Also, I might want to do a quick edit to what I
have typed so far (maybe to fix a typo before I forget it's there), and
then return to add new text to the line. If I open a new blank line with
C-o, I just type C-e to continue typing, but if the line is still stringed
together with the old line, then finding the correct point is a pita.

Note that the vi editor also has not only one, but two "open line" commands
"o" and "O", for opening a line below and above the current line,
respectively.

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