From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Concern about new binding. Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2021 00:46:16 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20210202134950.vybbpf3iewbymfjo.ref@Ergus> <20210202134950.vybbpf3iewbymfjo@Ergus> <878s86tnv6.fsf@red-bean.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="7947"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: kfogel@red-bean.com, spacibba@aol.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: thibaut.verron@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 05 06:48:36 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 1l7tyt-0001zG-M9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2021 06:48:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58824 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l7tys-0006tT-NH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2021 00:48:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51428) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l7twi-0005LH-Ri for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2021 00:46:22 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54389) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l7twh-0001Mb-T8; Fri, 05 Feb 2021 00:46:19 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1l7twe-0003KS-OS; Fri, 05 Feb 2021 00:46:16 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Thibaut Verron on Tue, 2 Feb 2021 18:45:09 +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:263935 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > As for the conventions, as far as I can tell, they explicitly require > to steer clear of "C-c letter", but they don't have anything about > "C-x letter": > https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Key-Binding-Conventions.html That's true. It isn't necessarily bad for a package to bind C-xLETTER. However, binding any of the remaining C-x LETTER keys is a digificant change, A package which binds one should be prepared to see that key get an important global binding, which would not quite compel a change in the package, but almost. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)