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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>,
	emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Add -other-{window, frame} variants of project-prefix-map commands
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2020 00:06:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvd056y7vm.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877dvesx19.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (Juri Linkov's message of "Wed,  08 Jul 2020 02:52:34 +0300")

> It seems the biggest challenge that needs to be solved before making
> any changes in core Emacs is how to keep backward-compatibility with
> keybindings added by users to the existing keymap ctl-x-4-map.

`other-frame-window` doesn't make any effort to handle that, indeed.
It provides `ofw-transient-map` instead.

I believe we could live with this kind of backward incompatibility.

> Then maybe a new command bound to `C-x 4` could just introspect
> ctl-x-4-map and run its commands as is.

We could try and manually combine ctl-x-5-map and ctl-x-4-map into
`ofw-transient-map` in `ofw--set-prefix`, but I'm not sure it's worth
the hassle.

Note also that the tension between parsing `C-x 4 FOO` as "lookup FOO in
`ctl-x-4-map` (or in `ofw-transient-map`)" and "lookup FOO in the normal
way", which is why in `ofw--set-prefix` we do:

  ;; FIXME: Setup a transient map to reproduce the behavior of the `C-x 4/5'
  ;; prefix keys, but only do it in "regular" buffers.  In special buffers,
  ;; these extra bindings may be more annoying than anything, e.g. in Gnus's
  ;; summary buffer `a' open a new message buffer, so we'd want `C-x
  ;; 5 a' to open it in a new frame, but instead of calling
  ;; add-change-log-entry.
  (when (eq (key-binding [?a]) 'self-insert-command) ;Heuristic!
    (set-transient-map ofw-transient-map)))


-- Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-08  4:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-04  0:54 Add -other-{window,frame} variants of project-prefix-map commands Sean Whitton
2020-07-04  5:34 ` Add -other-{window, frame} " Stephen Leake
2020-07-04 23:24   ` Sean Whitton
2020-07-06  0:58     ` Stephen Leake
2020-07-06  0:23   ` Juri Linkov
2020-07-06  3:31     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-07-06 22:57       ` Juri Linkov
2020-07-06 23:27         ` Drew Adams
2020-07-06 23:35         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-07-07 23:52           ` Juri Linkov
2020-07-08  4:06             ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2020-07-09  0:24               ` Juri Linkov
2020-07-09 23:58                 ` Juri Linkov
2020-07-05  6:13 ` bug#42210: Add -other-window " Sean Whitton
2020-07-05 14:41   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-05 18:35   ` Drew Adams
2020-07-05 20:25     ` Sean Whitton
2020-07-06  0:00       ` Drew Adams
2020-07-06  0:19   ` Juri Linkov
2020-07-06  1:58     ` Sean Whitton
2020-07-06 22:59       ` Juri Linkov
2020-07-08  6:27         ` Sean Whitton
2020-07-09  0:10           ` Juri Linkov
2020-07-11 17:09             ` Sean Whitton

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