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

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Juri Linkov wrote:
> Lennart's version has one drawback: it includes too much unnecessary
> and distracting features like excessive coloring and mouse pointer jumping.

They are optional. It is a hard question to decide what feedback is 
needed. If you want to comment on this you are very welcome. (Maybe read 
the doc for resize-windows, it tries in the example to explain what is 
going on. But of course it should be intuitive.)

One might for example argue that the colors should not be that 
disturbing. My reply would be that it perhaps does not matter that much 
since those colors are only used shortly during windows resizing. And 
that it is quite good to get a feeling (through the visual feedback) 
that the Emacs for a short moment does something different then normally.

Or that the (short) mouse pointer jumping is disturbing. It may be 
helpful for the beginner I would say. He/she might not notice otherwise 
and perhaps even have to read the documentation. Turn the jumping off if 
you do not like it.

But there are probably better arguments from your side.


> Neither allows using keys normally bound to window manipulation commands
> (`other-window', `split-window', `windmove-...') in window-resizing mode.

I preferred to leave those bindings out, but the user can easily add 
them by customizing winsize-let-me-use.


> I think it would be preferable to make it a global mode (with an
> indication string in the mode-line) and redefining a few keybindings for
> doing its job.

Hm. I started with a global minor mode (or really from the beginning 
with a loop while testing). I have not much against that (if you put it 
in emulation-mode-map-alist). The key bindings should be rather similar 
though.