Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key (why only one?) and reserve it for third-party packages

[Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>]

>
> I'm not sure that the number of published packages necessarily means 
> that 1. user install more packages over time 2. some fixed proportion of 
> these require global bindings. More often than not, packages might just 
> provide hooks or implement interfaces like Xref or CAPF, thus avoiding 
> their own special keys.
>

Frankly, I don't understand why it is necessary to argue so much to 
explain that a limit of 26 or 52 global bindings is not enough.  It's as 
if your operating system forced you to have at most 26 or 52 files or 
folders in each folder; of course it would be feasible to use such an 
operating system, but it would be terribly impractical.  I see that, out 
of the ~11K commands in Emacs core, there are currently ~450-500 commands 
bound to keys in global-map (counting only the C-something, M-something 
and C-M-something).  I or you may, today, not need more than 26 or 52 
global bindings for external packages, we may perhaps only need 10 or 20, 
but this discussion isn't about me or you, or about the current situation, 
it's about finding a long-term solution to a problem, with the hope that 
in the long term more and more external packages will be useful to a large 
audience.  It's about making Emacs friendlier for beginners, and also for 
third-party library developers by giving them a "home" in Emacs' default 
keyboard bindings.