Re: New keybinding suggestion: C-x _ for `shrink-window'

[Richard Stallman]

     > That seems basically good, but using other characters
     > such as arrow keys would be an improvement.
     > / and \ could be good for vertical size changes
     > and [,] for horizontal; they don't need a shift key.

    On international keyboards you can be pretty sure that ascii letters
    and decimal numerals won't need a shift key (unless the keyboard is in
    ISO level 3 shift lock mode, in which case you are restricted to
    numerals).  On all punctuation, except maybe period and comma, you
    can't be sure.

Letters and numbers are not as good for this purpose than graphics
that have a clear symbolic meaning.  So we have a trade-off between
clear mnemonic choices and support for non-US keyboards.  I'm inclined
to choose the clear mnemonic choices, esp. since most keyboards
have arrow keys too.