>>>>> "Ramkumar" == Ramkumar Ramachandra <[email protected]> writes:

> Hm.  It's not auto-loaded so users will have to "(require
> 'magit-simple-keys)" in their .emacs explicitly to use it anyway.
> Sure, putting it a place like /usr/share/doc/magit would work, but I'm
> wondering if we should push it more aggressively to get feedback.
> Then again, I'm biased as the author: I don't know how many people
> actually (would like to) use it.

Sure, my point was just about the fact that we don't document it
anywhere, hence once it's loaded (which users might be more tempted to
do unknowingly if it has the same visibility as the rest) the manual
isn't so helpful anymore.
So like I said, it's more of a policy thing. Personally I don't have any
strong feeling.

> Mainly, I don't want magit (or atleast my local copy) to deviate from
> the command-line interface too much: I have to use the command-line
> interface most of the time as a git contributor, and I see magit as a
> nice shortcut for common tasks.

Yep, I tend to agree with that, and sometimes I wish there was no
annoying popup coming in the way (especially when it breaks my
layout). But on the other hand, I find the magit-simple-keys.el approach
a bit too radical :)
While I do simple things most of the time (and would enjoy short
bindings then), it's good to be able to do complex stuff from magit as
well, from time to time.
I think there could be 2 modes: simple and complex (and in complex mode,
we could probably even make the popup optional). And one could probably
toggle the mode, maybe with a C-- prefix, or something like this.

It's not very clear in my head yet, but I'm quite sure we can improve
the current situation to satisfy everybody :)

Yann.

-- 
The individual is the key, the final effective unit of all biological processes.

  -- PARDOT KYNES

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