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Then you destroy any remaining trace of a link between the key binding and the action. You can imagine the conversation "control p to go up? Control y to paste
by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Then you destroy any remaining trace of a link between the key binding and the action. You can imagine the conversation
"control p to go up? Control y to paste? v to go down – perhaps that's v for vertically down or something? Who designed this crap anyway".
Maybe it would work but I'm not feeling optimistic :-)
- brokenkebaby 3y agoEmacs is a programmable environment constructor, ain't it? Significant share of users prefer evil-mode, and use "p in command mode", not c-y. There are people who have custom keyboards (and even pedals) and their bindings often tuned to that fact. So "control y" is not more sacred than the leftmost pedal, and link is ephemeral anyway.
- _a_a_a_ 3y agoI think the mnemonic link matters for beginners, but let's say I agree with you. By calling the link ephemeral haven't you just undermined your own argument that the terminology is a barrier?
- brokenkebaby 3y agoOf course I haven't as I made zero claim about mnemonics. We're talking about readability i.e. cognitive burden which by definition increases with amount of unknown words, or words with unexpected contextual meanings