Re: Proposal: new default bindings for winner and windmove

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 02/07/2024 16:31, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > >   (setopt windmove-default-keybindings (list (kbd "C-x 4"))),
> > > which would allow for the bindings to be disabled more easily.
> > They're global keybindings. If you don't want these keys bound to these
> > commands, bind them to something else. There's no case for "disabling"
> > them.
> Oh, there is!  Some users will have C-x 4 LEFT, etc., bound buffer
> locally to do other things.  They will expect a beep and an error message
> if they type it in a "wrong" buffer.  That functionality would be lost.

That's really the main argument against adding new bindings.

But it's really an argument against adding any bindings to those 
sequences, at all, ever.