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

[Juri Linkov]

> 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).

This is a good mnemonic, but then we should use M-arrows for windmove
instead of its default S-arrows.

> 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.

The need to decide between resizing two opposite borders arises very
rarely, only when there is more then two windows in a row (either
horizontally or vertically).  And even for users who forget keys
for resizing the top/left border it is easy to switch to the upper/left
window with M-arrows, resize its bottom/right border with simple arrow
keys (which is the same as the top/left border of the original window),
and switch back to the original window.

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Juri Linkov
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