From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master 6a2ee981c3: Add new functions for splitting the root window Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2022 19:17:10 +0300 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <86h71kseiw.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <166240424802.11417.12502552895310232639@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> <20220905185728.838CEC0088A@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15486"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: Hugo Heagren To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 06 18:21:04 2022 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 1oVbJt-0003pe-PL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2022 18:21:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59272 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oVbJs-0004bV-MQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2022 12:21:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45200) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oVbHk-0002jn-Rm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2022 12:18:48 -0400 Original-Received: from relay7-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.200]:39071) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oVbHj-0006Q5-5w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2022 12:18:48 -0400 Original-Received: (Authenticated sender: juri@linkov.net) by mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9582820013 for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2022 16:18:44 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <20220905185728.838CEC0088A@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Mon, 5 Sep 2022 14:57:28 -0400 (EDT)") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.70.183.200; envelope-from=juri@linkov.net; helo=relay7-d.mail.gandi.net X-Spam_score_int: -25 X-Spam_score: -2.6 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:294793 Archived-At: > (define-key ctl-x-map "{" 'shrink-window-horizontally) > (define-key ctl-x-map "-" 'shrink-window-if-larger-than-buffer) > (define-key ctl-x-map "+" 'balance-windows) > +(define-key ctl-x-map "7" 'split-root-window-below) > +(define-key ctl-x-map "9" 'split-root-window-right) > (define-key ctl-x-4-map "0" 'kill-buffer-and-window) > (define-key ctl-x-4-map "1" 'same-window-prefix) > (define-key ctl-x-4-map "4" 'other-window-prefix) Taking one of the most easy to type keys 'C-x 7' and 'C-x 9' for such rarely used commands? Really? Wouldn't it better to use a negative prefix arg of the existing commands, e.g. 'C-- C-x 2' without specifying the size of the root window, or 'C-u -25 C-x 2'.