From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: how about a find-library-other-window command? Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:28:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: <18040.10649.628867.535567@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182346274 28284 80.91.229.12 (20 Jun 2007 13:31:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:31:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David House Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 20 15:31:12 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I10H8-0006Qy-U4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:31:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I10H8-0000Sq-Fb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:31:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I10Ea-0006FB-2c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:28:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I10EZ-0006Ej-Bl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:28:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I10EY-0006EQ-NT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:28:30 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I10EY-0006jP-Ey for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:28:30 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I10EY-0002d7-6a; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:28:30 -0400 In-reply-to: <18040.10649.628867.535567@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (message from David House on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:08:09 +0100) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:73420 Archived-At: I've wondered in the past whether it would be feasible to have C-x 4 be bound to a command which reads a key sequence then executes it in another window, so that we needn't define new commands for every command we want to execute in the other window. It is an interesting idea, but we would need a special feature to enable c-x 4 f to keep working, so you don't have to type C-x 4 C-f. Some attention may be needed for various help features that use keymaps, in order to get good results. So this won't be trivial, but it is worth trying.