From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [External] : Re: Concern about new binding. Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2021 13:34:36 +0200 Message-ID: <83mtwipx2r.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20210202134950.vybbpf3iewbymfjo.ref@Ergus> <20210202134950.vybbpf3iewbymfjo@Ergus> <87zh0mmr54.fsf@gmail.com> <87tuqunw6q.fsf@telefonica.net> <835z3a5miu.fsf@gnu.org> <87lfc6nvlt.fsf@telefonica.net> <8335ye5lhj.fsf@gnu.org> <83y2g54yd0.fsf@gnu.org> <83zh0josom.fsf@gnu.org> <871rdusudz.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="24258"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Robert Pluim Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 05 12:36:17 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l7zPN-00067X-PO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2021 12:36:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57444 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l7zPM-0003tI-RD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2021 06:36:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33082) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l7zNv-0002jM-Uj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2021 06:34:47 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:35918) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l7zNv-0001bR-H9; Fri, 05 Feb 2021 06:34:47 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:2718 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1l7zNf-0002IF-5y; Fri, 05 Feb 2021 06:34:32 -0500 In-Reply-To: <871rdusudz.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Robert Pluim on Fri, 05 Feb 2021 11:04:24 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:263972 Archived-At: > From: Robert Pluim > Cc: rms@gnu.org, ofv@wanadoo.es, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2021 11:04:24 +0100 > > I can understand why we should avoid changing C-x o o behaviour, but > what's the rationale for the capital letter after C-x rule? Itʼs not > like Iʼm likely to type a capital by mistake (and eg edebug already > doesnʼt follow this rule, since it binds 'C-x X ' commands). Richard explained that up-thread; perhaps he could expand his explanation. I believe it has to do with the possibility that you hold the Shift key knowing that it won't matter. In any case, if we decide we want to keep this rule, we will explain its rationale in the manual.