From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proposal: new default bindings for winner and windmove Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2021 22:23:21 +0300 Message-ID: <83pmu6y53q.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="8940"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 21 21:24:07 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mHWb9-00029L-Aa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2021 21:24:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46352 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mHWb7-0002Vr-EC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2021 15:24:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45916) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mHWae-0001rp-FI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2021 15:23:36 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54154) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mHWad-0005Xe-Mm; Sat, 21 Aug 2021 15:23:35 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:3173 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mHWad-0000iq-9J; Sat, 21 Aug 2021 15:23:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Daniel Colascione on Sat, 21 Aug 2021 12:10:16 -0700) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:272802 Archived-At: > From: Daniel Colascione > Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2021 12:10:16 -0700 > > Today, winner binds C-c LEFT  and C-c RIGHT for window configuration > undo and redo, respectively. This set of bindings has three problems: > >  1) the bindings occupy binding space on important keys, LEFT and > RIGHT, for functions that are rarely used, > > 2) the winner binding space isn't logically connected to window > management, and > > 3) the bindings don't work on terminals without LEFT and RIGHT. > > How about we set up these bindings instead? I'm actually surprised they have key bindings. How frequently do you undo/redo window configuration changes? But I don't use winner, so maybe I'm missing something. > (Also: is there any reason we shouldn't enable winner by default?) Doesn't the tab bar offer a similar functionality?