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: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 08:37:57 -0500 Message-ID: References: <7ef75c33936136eb3a20@heytings.org> <87czxazbhr.fsf@melete.silentflame.com> <871rdqfaix.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87mtwd42ck.fsf@melete.silentflame.com> <3966473cc18953bb033c@heytings.org> 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="36045"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Gregory Heytings Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 11 14:50:07 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 1lACMA-0009CO-Kr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 11 Feb 2021 14:50:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38266 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lACM9-0002jU-Jh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 11 Feb 2021 08:50:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:42866) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lACAR-0003e1-Jy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Feb 2021 08:37:59 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41201) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lACAQ-0006vq-UB; Thu, 11 Feb 2021 08:37:58 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lACAP-0007fv-0B; Thu, 11 Feb 2021 08:37:57 -0500 In-Reply-To: <3966473cc18953bb033c@heytings.org> (message from Gregory Heytings on Wed, 10 Feb 2021 11:07:12 +0000) 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:264366 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. ]]] > > So you can type C-α C-α Foopkg RET, then C-α gives you the Foopkg > > bindings. > > > I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Would this mean that each time > you want to use, say, Org-mode you would have to C-α C-α org-mode RET > before typing C-α c? If so, I don't think this would work. Org is a collection of major modes, so I don't think it should need to use the C-α mechanism. That mechanism would be meant for packages that need to define a binding for a global prefix key. Major modes can simply define local bindings. > Org-mode also binds keys (at least one) globally > that (AFAIK) cannot possibly have a use outside > of an org-mode buffer. Perhaps they should be changed into local (major mode) bindings. -- 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)