From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs conventions (was: Re: Overriding emacs key bindings) Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 06:38:48 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86posiach3.fsf@student.uu.se> References: <86k2iteg4e.fsf@student.uu.se> <87lh39h2hr.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> <7ed720ce-0339-4de0-8f05-2f2ebbab3531@default> <867fesdtv4.fsf_-_@student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1464882472 31637 80.91.229.3 (2 Jun 2016 15:47:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 15:47:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 02 17:47:52 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1b8Uqc-0007IF-Cg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2016 17:47:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48127 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b8Uqb-0001PT-Iv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2016 11:47:49 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!1.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!news.albasani.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: EoOtCC1fCYcttx6jjhWUlA.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:+TN6DDlKMSf9nQfJLPnm+I6YA8Q= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:217808 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:110210 Archived-At: Barry Margolin writes: >> There is no convention (that I know of) that >> restricts key bindings for users or even >> suggests that users should stay away from >> certain keys. > > But if a user binds a key that's supposed to > be for modes, and then they load a mode that > also binds that key, they'll have a conflict. > The point of these conventions is to avoid > conflicts like this. Thats exactly right. Part of the reason a convention is useful is that the convention itself makes sense, but part of it has little to do with the particular definition, and the usefulness lies in the status as convention as such, and likely some other definition would have worked just as good... -- underground experts united .... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 Emacs Gnus Blogomatic ......... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/blogomatic - so far: 33 Blogomatic articles -