Feature Request: customizable key assignment order

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what

a configuration option specifying something like horizontal_order: right_to_left, vertical_order: down_to_up, assignment_order: horizontal_then_vertical

why

Simple answer: to make visual feedback unnecessary more often, to make more actions doable by muscle memory.

I want, when doing a split, for the bottom-most window to keep its shortcut key. I am most frequently visiting bottom-most windows, and upper windows are more supplementary/temporary, so I would prefer for the bottom-most windows to keep the same keys, so that I can visit them by muscle-memory.

Currently, with top-down naming, creating a new split in one column or the other, makes the bottom-most window's shortcut key change.

Additionally, currently, after creating a new split in the leftmost column, the bottom-most column of the right column will be renamed. I would prefer that bottom-most windows not be renamed due to creating upper windows.

more

If it's not too difficult, it would be better, I think, if creating a row in left column did not rename items in right column, and vice-versa. I generally only have a left and right vertical split, and I would prefer if splitting these horizontally didn't really interfere with each other's shortcut assignment.

I never have more than 2 vertical columns (except that some h-split might be further-split vertically - but these are not root-level vertical columns). All of this might differently be described as "give 2 vertical columns their own namespace, with their own designated shortcut keys, and allow for down_to_up naming order".