From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key (why only one?) and reserve it for third-party packages Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2021 20:41:49 +0100 Message-ID: <87k0razbb6.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87ft20f3ec.fsf@posteo.net> <8735xz67ye.fsf@posteo.net> <87mtw74j5h.fsf@posteo.net> <663841c0e3fb003a733c@heytings.org> <663841c0e31fdd6c8e1e@heytings.org> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="9256"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:5Kr1syUl0l5BbSLLreNZxDal80I= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 14 20:46:22 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1lBNLa-0002I6-DK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2021 20:46:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48824 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lBNLZ-0000Y7-FK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2021 14:46:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56400) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lBNKL-0000WU-RJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2021 14:45:05 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:50102) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lBNKK-0005Rq-DN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2021 14:45:05 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lBNKI-0000ZT-Bw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2021 20:45:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:128056 Archived-At: Jean Louis wrote: > It can be easily solved by introducing variable > `ask-me-for-packages-which-need-prefix-key' which is by > default NIL. > > Packages can then notify Emacs that they need one or more > prefix keys: > > (need-prefix-key 'my-package-map-1) > (need-prefix-key 'my-package-map-2) > > Emacs would then provide the unified wizard function that > asks those users who have set the above variable for prefix > keys for the package. > > That solves universally those hypothetical > problems discussed. A hypothetical solution - to solve a hypothetical problem. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal