Re: master c3e989ca9d7: New minor mode find-function-mode replaces find-function-setup-keys

[Howard Melman]

Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:

> One option is just to keep find-function-setup-keys as it
> was.  Another would be to make the minor mode add the keys
> to the global map, and remove them from it when
> deactivated.  How about that?

I never understood why these commands were not just bound
like many other commands.  They've been around for 25+ years
and AFAIK nothing else is competing with the bindings.

If you want to bind these (useful) commands, both
find-function-setup-keys and a minor mode require
the find-function library to be loaded from the user's init,
slowing down startup. (I duplicate the code from
find-function-setup-keys in my init to avoid this).

If there are users that bind these keys to other commands
their customizations would be unaffected by having these
commands bound.

Now that other-window-prefix and other-frame-prefix exist,
even binding the base commands to C-x [FKVL] would help.
Those that would prefer to type C-x 4 F instead of C-x 4 4
C-x F can bind it themselves (though I'd prefer if all of
these were bound by default).

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Howard