Re: New keybinding suggestion: C-x _ for `shrink-window'

[Stefan Monnier]

> Sorry to insist on this, but Emacs has also these two keybindings:

>   C-x {  shrink-window-horizontally
>   C-x }  enlarge-window-horizontally

> I find it weird to have a keybinding for `shrink-window-horizontally'
> and not for `shrink-window', which is more fundamental.  Especially
> because the default split (C-x 2) is horizontal, thus calling for 
> vertical resizing.

Actually, I'd prefer to deprecate those bindings (along with C-x ^) and
replace them with a binding that allows the user to do:

   M-x window-resize RET

(which we'd of course bind to some key) and then

   ^ ^ ^ } } } } } { { { { } } ...
or
   left left left up up up up up up up

I usually don't know how by how many lines I want to expand/shrink a window,
so I typically end up doing

   C-x ^ C-x ^ C-x ^

which is *really* inconvenient.  So a modal interface would reduce the
number of necessary bindings to just 1, freeing the other keys for other
uses, and it would be a lot more convenient for my use cases (hopefully I'm
not the only one out there).


        Stefan