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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>,
	"emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: [External] : Adding a binding for 'undo-redo'
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 16:25:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <SJ0PR10MB54880F99B178777E289A3426F3A99@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6bb8f829-ec85-ea42-3146-c6bf8ca89495@yandex.ru>

> The main technical hurdle to adding this binding was the lack of a good
> binding, but Richard suggested C-? and C-M-_, which should cover both
> GUI Emacs and tty. This change doesn't change the existing 'undo'
> binding, so it's not going to break anybody's workflow. But it adds a
> key combination we can recommend to the users who are accustomed to
> separate 'undo' and 'redo' commands.
> 
> WDYT? Should we add this to Emacs 28?

Why promote a default binding before users have,
themselves, actually been binding the command
for a while?

Just because we add a command, and it might be
useful, and it might get used, and users might
bind it, doesn't mean that it needs to have a
default binding.

A fortiori, if users haven't (yet) been binding
it for a while, or if we don't know they have.

The "technical hurdle" of finding a good binding
isn't the place to start.  The place to start is
to wait for users to use and bind it, and then 
see how much a default binding would make sense.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-09-29 16:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-29  1:56 Adding a binding for 'undo-redo' Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-29  5:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-29 11:26   ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-29 12:21     ` Bozhidar Batsov
2021-09-29 15:50     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-29 19:37       ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-29 16:26     ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-29 13:02   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-29 16:25 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2021-09-29 16:34   ` [External] : " Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-29 16:46   ` Manuel Uberti
2021-09-29 17:08   ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2021-09-29 17:25     ` Drew Adams
2021-09-29 19:17       ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-29 19:29         ` Drew Adams
2021-09-30  7:13       ` Alfred M. Szmidt

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