From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New keybinding suggestion: C-x _ for `shrink-window' Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:20:32 +0100 Message-ID: <4728AB50.3010607@gmail.com> References: <87r6jfed61.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <877il3qyvs.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1193851220 27593 80.91.229.12 (31 Oct 2007 17:20:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:20:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Bastien , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 31 18:20:22 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 1InHEr-00024B-Fd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:20:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1InHEh-00034w-KE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:20:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1InHEf-00034E-A1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:20:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1InHEc-00032l-R0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:20:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1InHEc-00032b-Mz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:20:06 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1InGJX-0007as-Pg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:21:08 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:64139 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1InGJ4-0002ad-8N; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:20:39 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070728 Thunderbird/2.0.0.6 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 071031-0, 2007-10-31), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1InGJ4-0002ad-8N. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1InGJ4-0002ad-8N 61ba688354660aac122059bfe655fce6 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:82236 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: > I usually don't know how by how many lines I want to expand/shrink a window, > so I typically end up doing > > C-x ^ C-x ^ C-x ^ > > which is *really* inconvenient. So a modal interface would reduce the > number of necessary bindings to just 1, freeing the other keys for other > uses, and it would be a lot more convenient for my use cases (hopefully I'm > not the only one out there). I agree. And a modal interface for this is of course exactly what bw-interactive.el is. Maybe you want to comment on the last version I sent?