Re: Concern about new binding.

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Sat 06 Feb 2021 at 10:56AM +01, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:
>
>> It seems the least controversial among all variants would be
>> `C-x r e' where "re" is the prefix of the command "re"vert-buffer
>> that is also free on the `C-x r' map and easier to type than `C-x r v'.
>
> I like `C-x r e' -- it has pretty good mnemonics, and it's not too
> cumbersome to type.
>
> I also like the idea of adding a new prefix command for buffer-related
> commands.  The list of proposed commands we could bind there was pretty
> compelling -- it had a whole bunch of commands that (I think) people use
> somewhat frequently, and grouping them that way will help with
> discovery, I think.
>
> `C-x x' seems to be in the running here, and is pretty
> convenient to type.  If we go with `C-x x', then I guess `C-x x g' would
> be the binding for `revert-buffer', I guess?  (To mimic the `g' in
> special-mode-map.)
>
> I asked whether `C-x x' had been claimed by any major package, and I
> didn't see any response to that, so I'm guessing not?
>
> So I'm going to do the `C-x x' thing, I think.

I'm sorry for more bikeshedding, but may I suggest using C-x c instead
of C-x x?  

I just spent some time trying to repeatedly type C-x x followed by some
letter and I found that I kept typing C-x C-x by mistake.  Perhaps
others will have the same tendency.

It also has the mnemonic that C-c C-something typically act
on the current buffer, and we're talking about current buffer commands.

-- 
Sean Whitton