Re: Proposal: new default bindings for winner and windmove

[Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>]

Hi Alan,

On 02/07/2024 00:24, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

>> People screaming "backward compatibility" for each and every reason can
>> indeed be a problem.
> 
> Yes, but it's a difficult problem.  I would be screaming if somebody
> suggested removing the bindings C-o or C-M-o, for example.  I use these
> all the time.  But if I were the only user of them, it would be
> difficult to argue for their retention in the default key map.

An addition of a binding should pose less immediate danger than a 
removal of one, shouldn't it?

And okay, we might want to take care in adding bindings because later it 
would be hard to remove. But we are unlikely to be in 100% agreement for 
every such addition. It seems impossible to make every new addition 
"ideal" in that sense.

> On the other hand, C-x w h (highlight-regexp) already has a "more
> modern" binding M-s h r, so although I wouldn't be enthused about the
> removal of C-x w h, I wouldn't object to it either.

That's how I tend to think about this as well.

>> We should be able to change default key bindings more freely than we do now.
> 
> Yes, but...  Every time we do this, we're upsetting _sombody_'s work
> flow.  I don't see any way of getting this increased freedom to change.

Somebody mentioned telemetry in this thread earlier, apparently it was 
not received well. But some consistent way of polling users might help. 
Sometime later when we establish one.