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* Standardizing more key bindings?
@ 2020-09-27  9:31 Thibaut Verron
  2020-09-27 15:57 ` Stefan Monnier
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  0 siblings, 4 replies; 85+ messages in thread
From: Thibaut Verron @ 2020-09-27  9:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel

Dear all,

It was pointed out recently that one of the features of spacemacs and
the like offer is that key bindings are better standardized across
packages. The example given, I believe, was sending a region to the
REPL.

This kind of standardization is something that Emacs already does, for
some commands: we have indent-*-function, revert-buffer-function, for
instance, which make it easy to bind similar behaviours to the same
key across major modes.

For the REPL example, I guess it should be possible to split basic
functionality into some well-defined functions, and let packages
assign those functions? Like a comint-create-process-function, a
comint-send-region-function, a comint-send-buffer-function, etc.

It doesn't seem too complicated to implement, but it would require
precisely identifying the meaningful building blocks, and package
maintainers would have to refactor their code to make use of those
variables.

I seem to recall Stefan bringing up such a discussion a few years ago,
the goal then being to simplify setting up a comint buffer.

Another possibility would be to define variables for "preferred" key
bindings for some behaviours, so that packages would only have to bind
those if non nil. This is minimal work for the package maintainers,
and also easy to do by third party (fourth party?) packages or by the
user for packages which are no longer maintained.

But that would be a new concept for Emacs.

Both options can be tentatively implemented as a separate package
(similarly to no-litter).

What do you think?

Best,
Thibaut



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2020-09-27  9:31 Standardizing more key bindings? Thibaut Verron
2020-09-27 15:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-28  3:44 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-28  4:38   ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-28  7:39     ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-29  3:30       ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-29  5:07         ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-29 10:36           ` Vasilij Schneidermann
2020-10-01  4:09           ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-01  5:20             ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-29 21:56         ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-11-01  4:27           ` Richard Stallman
2020-11-01  6:56             ` References to "REPL" from past Jean Louis
2020-11-01 13:51             ` Standardizing more key bindings? Stefan Monnier
2020-11-02  5:41               ` Richard Stallman
2020-11-02  6:14                 ` Yuri Khan
2020-11-02  8:08                   ` tomas
2020-11-02  9:50                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-11-02 11:40                     ` Python REPL using standard library functions Yuri Khan
2020-11-02 22:46                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-11-01 21:35             ` Standardizing more key bindings? Dmitry Gutov
2020-11-01 22:27               ` Drew Adams
2020-11-02  5:46               ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-29 21:58 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-09-30  6:08   ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-30 16:58     ` Opening Up More Keymaps " T.V Raman
2020-09-30 17:29       ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-30 18:12         ` Robert Pluim
2020-09-30 18:16       ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-30 18:35         ` T.V Raman
2020-09-30 18:41           ` Robert Pluim
2020-09-30 19:54           ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-30 19:58             ` T.V Raman
2020-09-30 20:00               ` Noam Postavsky
2020-09-30 20:03                 ` T.V Raman
2020-09-30 21:00                   ` chad
2020-09-30 21:34                     ` T.V Raman
2020-09-30 20:45               ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-30 20:51                 ` T.V Raman
2020-09-30 21:13                 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-30 21:19                   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-30 21:37                     ` T.V Raman
2020-09-30 21:44                       ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-30 23:07                         ` T.V Raman
2020-10-01  2:35                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-01  3:27                   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-01 12:38                   ` Ergus
2020-10-01 14:17                     ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-01 14:45                       ` Caio Henrique
2020-10-02  3:54                       ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-02 10:43                         ` Ergus
2020-10-04 19:34                           ` Juri Linkov
2020-10-02  3:49                   ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-02  6:56                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-02 11:34                       ` Ergus
2020-10-02 12:26                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-04  3:38                       ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-04 10:38                         ` Thibaut Verron
2020-10-04 13:46                           ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-10-04 16:24                             ` Thibaut Verron
2020-10-04 17:00                               ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-10-04 17:32                                 ` Thibaut Verron
2020-10-04 17:46                                   ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-10-05  3:11                                     ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-06  8:59                                       ` Lars Brinkhoff
2020-10-04 17:46                               ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-10-05  3:13                           ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-04 14:10                       ` Howard Melman
2020-10-02  3:45     ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-02  6:26       ` Thibaut Verron
2020-10-04  3:39         ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-04  3:39         ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-02  6:52       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-02 14:00         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-04  3:38         ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-04  7:16           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-05  3:14             ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-02 13:56       ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-03  2:57         ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-06 12:53 ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2020-10-06 13:27   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-06 14:24     ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2020-10-06 14:43       ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-08  9:40         ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2020-10-07  4:19   ` Richard Stallman

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