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> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2020 23:45:29 -0400
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru
> 
> The first question is, should thee bindings be conceptually global?
> I don't think so.
> 
> To make them global means they conflict with a lot more other bindings,
> and that makes the task of choosing these bindings harder.
> It also means that the change would be a bigger incompatibility.
> 
> Thus, I think we should plan on having these bindings only
> in the major modes that involve talking to an intepreter.

They could also be defined by prog-mode, which is (or should be) the
parent of all programming modes.