Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages

[Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>]

>>> Suppose we reserve one key for third-party packages.  Let's refer to 
>>> that key as C-\alpha, to avoid specifying which key is chosen.
>>>
>>> Various packages will set up their own bindings for it.  If you load 
>>> more than one such package, which package's bindings will you get? How 
>>> do you get the ones you want?
>>
>> This is something that should be left to packages.  Org-mode would 
>> bind, say, C-\alpha a, C-\alpha c and C-\alpha l, or perhaps C-\alpha o 
>> a, C-\alpha o c and C-\alpha o l; Magit would bind C-\alpha g and 
>> C-\alpha M-g, or perhaps C-\alpha g g and C-\alpha g f; and so forth. 
>> There will be conflicts, of course, but only occasionally, and in those 
>> cases users would have to do something to resolve the conflict.
>
> Wasn't C-\alpha supposed to be a global keybinding?  org-mode speciic 
> bindings don't make sense outside of org-mode and mode specific 
> keybindings already have a set that is already reserved for them.
>

Org-mode has indeed its own bindings when you are in an org-mode buffer, 
but three of its commands make sense / are designed to be used outside of 
org-mode buffers: org-agenda, org-capture and org-store-link.