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: Representation of the Emacs userbase on emacs-devel Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2021 23:07:35 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8b4cf399-d1ca-8669-2a78-06813100b987@yandex.ru> <29c12300-db02-2770-e3f6-593998ea98fc@yandex.ru> <20210907062039.GA4097@tuxteam.de> 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="27756"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: tomas@tuxteam.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Yuri Khan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 09 05:13:04 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 1mOAUq-00075o-Nb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2021 05:13:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33270 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mOAUp-0008AR-Ik for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2021 23:13:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38918) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mOAPY-0004nC-3W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2021 23:07:36 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:42850) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mOAPX-0007qS-J3; Wed, 08 Sep 2021 23:07:35 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mOAPX-0005P8-5Y; Wed, 08 Sep 2021 23:07:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Yuri Khan on Tue, 7 Sep 2021 22:26:06 +0700) 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:274415 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. ]]] > We are not asking for C-x to be rebound to Cut and C-c to Copy in > Emacs defaults. We are asking for it to become possible for us to make > that rebinding possible locally. And for that, we need people to stop > assuming C-x and C-c are and will always be prefix keys. I'm sorry, I did not understand this. This should be pretty easy. Whatever internal changes are needed to make it easy to rebind an x-prefix key or a mode-prefix-key without knowing which prefix keys lead to that map, they won't cause any trouble. Just a little work. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)