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On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Don Stewart wrote:
They're in the default Config -- i.e. that binding is already in scope.
So people are intentionally duplicating parts of the default config for some reason.
I think this is quite different to the case where there is a spontaneous idiom appearing.
-- Don
You refer to just the ones duplicating the mod-t binding? I'd say it's an interesting example of how our keybinding system is suboptimal - even moderately competent users should not find themselves duplicating stuff like this.
But anyway, even if you filter out the ones binding to xK_t, there're still 10 configs using this same function definition.
Is that not enough? Before I invest anymore time in trying to make configs more concise & usable by factoring out commonalities, I'd appreciate some hard guidelines on when something is meritorious enough to be put in core and when it is not.
One function composition probably isn't worthwhile. Using incompatible names also isn't a good idea (naming is a bikeshed, beware!) Look for larger patterns : particular sets of modules used together, for example. -- Don