Re: Proposal: "C-z <letter>" reserved for users

[Christopher Miles]

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Hi, Howard, your keybinding is great.

I copied your code, found some command is not defined.

Can you share your Emacs configuration? Thanks in advance. 😄

Howard Melman <hmelman@gmail.com> writes:

S Boucher via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> 
writes:

C-z is bound to a low frequency use function (suspend-frame)… and speaking for 
myself, I probably can count on one hand the number of times I've used it in 
the last 25years :-)

I would suggest:1) move suspend-frame to "C-c C-z" (that is still a quick 
shortcut) 2) reserve C-z <letter> for users That still leaves a whole lot with 
C-z C-… C-z M-…

FWIW I used to bind the ctl-x-5-map to C-z add was happier typing C-z f than 
C-x 5 f. I shifted to this frame oriented transient on C-z for a while now and 
have been happy. I'm sure it could be improved but as a first attempt it's been 
pretty good for me.

;;; frame commands from ctl-x-5-map (define-transient-command 
hrm-frame-transient () "Frame commands mirroring ctl-x-5-map" ["Configure 
Frames" ["Manage" ("2" "New" make-frame-command) ("0" "Delete" delete-frame) 
("k" "Kill Frame & Buffer" kill-buffer-and-frame) ("1" "Delete others" 
delete-other-frames) ] ["Select" ("o" "Other" other-frame) ("n" "Next" 
other-frame) ("p" "Previous" select-previous-frame) ] ["Display" ("-" "Fixed 
Width" variable-pitch-mode) ("l" "Lower" lower-frame) ("=" "Maximize" 
toggle-frame-maximized) ("i" "Iconify" iconify-frame) ] ["Move" ("<" "Left" 
move-frame-left :transient t) (">" "Right" move-frame-right :transient t) ] ] 
["Open in other Frame" ["Files" ("b" "Buffer" switch-to-buffer-other-frame) 
("C-o" "Buffer other frame" display-buffer-other-frame) ("C-f" "File" 
find-file-other-frame) ("f" "File" find-file-other-frame) ("r" "File Read-Only" 
find-file-read-only-other-frame) ] ["Apps" ("d" "Dired" dired-other-frame) ("." 
"Xref" xref-find-definitions-other-frame) ("m" "Compose Mail" 
compose-mail-other-frame) ] ["Help For" ("V" "Variable" 
find-variable-other-frame) ("F" "Function" find-function-other-frame) ("K" 
"Key" find-function-on-key-other-frame) ("L" "Library" 
find-library-other-frame) ] ] ) (global-set-key (kbd "C-z") 
'hrm-frame-transient)

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