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

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Juri Linkov wrote:
> > Yes.  Now I understand why the colors and the mouse pointer jumps.
> > Because if M-<arrow> does not move a border because it jumped to the
> > opposite border, then you have to make it clear to the user, who might
> > have thought M-<arrow> will immediately move the border instead.
>
> The current window is highlighted by the special face of the mode-line,
> so there is no need in additional highlighting.  However, there is no
> special indication of the current window border in Emacs, but I think
> mouse movements is not an adequate replacement for the missing window
> border highlighting.  Instead of inventing special indications for the
> selected window border, it would be better to use one set of keys
> (e.g. arrows) to resize the right/bottom window border, and another set of
> keys (e.g. M-arrows or S-arrows) to resize the opposite left/top window
> border (while using M-arrows or S-arrows to switch windows).
>
> This will help avoiding unnatural indications in winsize.el, 

Thanks for your suggestion and comments, it is difficult to find a 
solution that does everything you want in this case.

Your suggestion to instead S-arrows is of course very simple to 
implement in the current version of winsize.el, maybe as an alternative. 
If we want that I would suggest using S-arrows, since shift can be seen 
as a mnemonic for "upper" (and maybe also since I think a shift to the 
left might be good).

After thinking about this for some minutes I am still not sure what I 
think about it. One drawback is that it is more to remember and that is 
not good for something you do rather seldom.