From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, juri@linkov.net
Subject: Re: Adding missing C-x 5 C-j and C-x t C-j commands
Date: Mon, 23 May 2022 17:07:37 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83v8tw5oly.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o7zowe0j.fsf@athena.silentflame.com> (message from Sean Whitton on Mon, 23 May 2022 06:54:20 -0700)
> From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
> Date: Mon, 23 May 2022 06:54:20 -0700
>
> I certainly agree with you that we shouldn't bind things into C-x 5
> willy-nilly. In this case, however, it's not just because we can, but
> because it makes things consistent with C-x 4 in a way that's helpful.
My point is that it may be useful for you, but is not necessarily
useful enough for others to justify a global "C-x 5" binding.
> As Juri has determined, it's almost the only one that doesn't match
> right now.
"C-x 4 a" is also unpaired, as are "C-x 5 u", "C-x 5 2", and "C-x 5 o".
That's hardly "almost".
> Here's a different way to look at it. Given the existing symmetry
> between C-x 4 and C-x 5, if we later bind anything *other* than
> dired-jump-other-window to C-x 5 C-j, we would be introducing a special
> exception that users would have to remember. That is, the existing
> symmetry has already implicitly semi-reserved C-x 5 C-j for
> dired-jump-other-window, by giving us a strong reason not to put
> anything else there.
See above: we already have asymmetry.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-23 14:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-22 19:53 Adding missing C-x 5 C-j and C-x t C-j commands Sean Whitton
2022-05-23 2:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-23 4:57 ` Sean Whitton
2022-05-23 4:59 ` Sean Whitton
2022-05-23 7:56 ` Juri Linkov
2022-05-23 9:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-23 13:54 ` Sean Whitton
2022-05-23 14:07 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-05-23 20:52 ` Sean Whitton
2022-05-23 13:35 ` Sean Whitton
2022-05-23 12:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-05-23 16:52 ` Juri Linkov
2022-06-07 20:17 ` Howard Melman
2022-06-08 2:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-08 6:40 ` Juri Linkov
2022-06-08 12:27 ` Howard Melman
2022-06-08 16:08 ` Juri Linkov
2022-06-08 19:17 ` Howard Melman
2022-06-09 2:41 ` Howard Melman
2022-06-09 6:44 ` Juri Linkov
2022-06-09 5:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-09 6:42 ` Juri Linkov
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