From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: how about a find-library-other-window command? Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:51:51 -0700 Message-ID: References: <18040.10649.628867.535567@gargle.gargle.HOWL> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182282812 4001 80.91.229.12 (19 Jun 2007 19:53:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:53:32 +0000 (UTC) To: "Emacs-Devel" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 19 21:53:29 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I0jlW-0003i6-A1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:53:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0jlU-0001C8-UG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:53:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0jkv-0000pO-2D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:52:49 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0jkp-0000ma-Ab for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:52:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0jkp-0000mT-3x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:52:43 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I0jkm-0007RC-El for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:52:41 -0400 Original-Received: from rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (rgmgw1.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.110]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id l5JJqJvl010439 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:52:19 -0600 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id l5JDjb6W002371 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:52:18 -0600 Original-Received: from dhcp-amer-whq-csvpn-gw3-141-144-80-227.vpn.oracle.com by acsmt351.oracle.com with ESMTP id 2968708301182282716; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:51:56 -0700 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 In-Reply-To: <18040.10649.628867.535567@gargle.gargle.HOWL> X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:73335 Archived-At: > I've wondered in the past whether it would be feasible to have > C-x 4 be bound to > a command which reads a key sequence then executes it in another > window, so that > we needn't define new commands for every command we want to > execute in the other > window. > > We could still define key aliases so that C-x 4 f would be > find-file-other-window instead of the more cumbersome C-x 4 C-x > C-f. This means > we can't use 'f' in the other window, but how useful would > self-insert-command > be anyway? I won't argue against exploring that, but I don't really see what is gained, beyond not needing to define the separate `-other-*' commands. What is gained for a user? I guess s?he might have fewer keys to remember, but s?he would have more keys to type, no? Also, I can imagine (though I don't recall if this is ever the case in the current code) that some `-other-*' commands might need to do some additional or different treatment. That is, I'm not sure that a blanket conversion from `foo' to `foo-other-window' is good for all cases. But that would be a minor consideration anyway - those commands could be treated specially.