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28.0.50; [PATCH]: Add bindings for project.el

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From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>, Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>, 41890 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 "Philip K." <philip <at> warpmail.net>, 42210 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#42210: bug#41890: 28.0.50; [PATCH]: Add bindings for
 project.el
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 18:33:30 -0700

Hello,

On Wed 22 Jul 2020 at 03:38AM +03, Dmitry Gutov wrote:

> Either way, I think the concern that someone could type 'C-x p 4 g' and
> see that the search results are *still* displayed in another window
> (gasp), is not too significant.

I think it could be a barrier to learning how to use project.el -- it's
weird for the same thing to be bound to two places, so the user might
think they've misunderstood something when they see it happen.

> Like, there's no other behavior that should result from key sequence,
> and if someone wanted to make doubly sure the resulting buffer will be
> displayed in the other window, why not let them.

This makes sense, and would be useful, so probably overrides my worry
about it being harder to learn.  So, shall I prepare a new patch which
just uses the whole prefix map and drops the defcustom?

-- 
Sean Whitton

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