Hi Yann,

Yann Hodique wrote:
>>>>>> "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.

Yeah, me too.  Let the Debian policy people decide what to do :)

> 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.

Agreed: I just think of magit-simple-keys as a stopgap: hopefully, we
won't get too comfortable/ lazy to write a new interface.

> 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 :)

I was hoping to make it some kind of clean fallback from one mode to
the other instead of two separate user interfaces.  Gah, we'll talk
more when we have some more code demonstrating this :)

-- Ram

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