From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: "whether the global keymap C-x 4 will be replaced by a command," Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2020 22:28:19 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83ft9woo68.fsf@gnu.org> <87wo377wxp.fsf_-_@mail.linkov.net> <87wo353f77.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87o8ofoy9o.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87sgdog5b5.fsf@iris.silentflame.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="30452"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Sean Whitton Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 19 04:29:02 2020 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 1jwz4X-0007mv-RE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 19 Jul 2020 04:29:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38382 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jwz4W-0004M0-SJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 18 Jul 2020 22:29:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50550) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jwz3w-0003oL-Oq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jul 2020 22:28:24 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:38003) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jwz3w-0002WT-E9; Sat, 18 Jul 2020 22:28:24 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jwz3r-0003Wq-D1; Sat, 18 Jul 2020 22:28:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87sgdog5b5.fsf@iris.silentflame.com> (message from Sean Whitton on Sat, 18 Jul 2020 09:23:58 -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:253091 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > Maybe it would be possible to make a function that would generate > > an "other-window" version of an existing command, by making code to call > > that command. > This is why my original patch which partly prompted this discussion did > (bug#42210), Sorry, I wasn't following this at that point. but the feedback I got was that it would be better to avoid > cluttering the function symbol namespace with lots of -other-window > commands. I think we are miscommunicating very slightly. There are two closely related but distinct questions. 1. Whether Drew would like to use that facility to make -other-window functions. 2. What to do about the standard C-x 4 commands, with three options: 2a. Leave them as they are now. 2b. Use your proposed generator facility to make a lot of -other-window functions. 2c. Make C-x 4 handle them all automatically. Your message talked about choosing between 2b and 2c, whereas I was suggesting that Drew could do 1. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)