Re: Key-binding clash between gnus and calc

[Jay Belanger <belanger@truman.edu>]

"Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com> writes:

>     Is there something that Calc can bind globally to calc-dispatch?
>
> M-+ is currently undefined.  

Undefined anywhere?  M-# is undefined (apart from Calc) in most major
modes; could there be a mode lurking about that uses M-+? The
keybindings conventions part of the manual doesn't say anything about
the M-symbol keys; are they fair game for major modes? 
Gnus uses them a lot, but I haven't seen them used much in other
modes.

> You could press M-+ twice (i.e., M-+ M-+)
> to start calc, the way you do now with M-# or press M-+ and a letter
> for a specific start or for moving data into and out of calc.

This doesn't meet the "more than one key long" condition, but if it
would be acceptable, it would be an excellent solution.  Calc has
various ways of interacting with buffers in different modes, and so I
think it should have a simple entry point with a simple mnemonic.
M-+ fits the bill nicely.

So, the question is, is M-+ acceptable?

> Incidentally, as far as I know, Emacs Calc mode came to use the M-#
> binding before GNUS.  However, because calc was so big, calc was
> kept separate from the standard Emacs distribution for a long time.
> Now, few think that three megabytes additional is `too much'.

I suspect that you can find running shoes with three megabytes of
memory.

Jay