Re: Control help- and Info-mode buffers from other buffers

[Arthur Miller]

Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

>> Basically that these were two discussions, one where Juri asked me about my
>> experiences about running commands in other windows, and one about the
>> patch. Juri dislike the idea of wrapping all commands into 
>> with-selected-window
>> and is trying to find a way to transfer command execution to other window
>> without need to wrap commands explicitly as I understand him, which I hope he
>> will find.
>
> If you ask me what would be an ideal UI, "UI of a dream", then
> the answer is obvious.  Emacs already has such a rudimentary UI.
> It works perfectly, but currently is limited to a tiny set of commands.
>
> The key point of the existing "do-in-other-window" UI is that
> no additional prefix keys are required, only a modifier key
> to hold down while typing other-window navigation keys.
>
> The current modifier key is 'M-'.  So while holding down the ALT key
> you can use the navigation keys 'PgUp', 'PgDn', 'Home', 'End'
> that browse the buffer in another window.  While doing this,
> a natural wish appears to enable more navigation keys.
> Why not enable arrow keys as well?  Why only 'M-PgUp' is supported,
> but not 'M-up'?  Maybe the answer is that then some keys would conflict
> with default keybindings, for example, with 'M-left'.
>
> Such kind of problems found solutions in windmove.  For its
> numerous keys it's possible to choose a dedicated modifier,
> or a combination of modifiers.
>
> So in the perfect UI, you could just hold down a modifier,
> then type the usual keys that you would type if another window
> was selected.

We share a lot of thoughts in common, but I think there are some fundamental
issues you are fighting against. I'll come to this another time. Just letting
you know that I have seen it.