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From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
To: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 08:33:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bd454de51c29d7e4c8d1@heytings.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y2fsg5ve.fsf@posteo.net>


>> To me what you propose looks pretty close to using customize to set a 
>> foobar-set-global-binding variable that would be used in a call to 
>> global-set-key.
>
> Yes, that could also be done, the precise code that is generated is an 
> open question
>

But that would be forbidden by the guideline "Don't define 'C-c LETTER' as 
a key in Lisp programs", wouldn't it?

(defcustom foobar-global-key "" "Foobar global key in C-c")
...
(if (length foobar-global-key)
   (global-set-key (kbd (concat "C-c " foobar-global-key) 'foobar-foo-command)))

If that's allowed, then why not this?

(defcustom foobar-global-key "z" "Foobar global key in C-c")
...
(if (length foobar-global-key)
   (global-set-key (kbd (concat "C-c " foobar-global-key) 'foobar-foo-command)))

This is not very different from the first one, and does what the guideline 
forbids, but it could be argued that it does not because it does so only 
conditionally...

>
> But even considering that, what do you think that the long-term issue 
> is? Do you think that with time, people will be using more and more 
> packages that need global keys?
>

I do not think, I see.  Just have a look at the starter kits, or at the 
init files of those who make them public.  You'll see that there are many 
packages that need global keys.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-13  8:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 92+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <7ef75c33936136eb3a20@heytings.org>
     [not found] ` <8735y56naf.fsf@posteo.net>
     [not found]   ` <8ed9b43502ae9a36b057@heytings.org>
     [not found]     ` <87tuqk6d9d.fsf@posteo.net>
     [not found]       ` <3966473cc1ab9f104724@heytings.org>
2021-02-10 23:35         ` PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages Philip K.
2021-02-11  8:45           ` Gregory Heytings
2021-02-11 13:53             ` Philip K.
2021-02-11 15:47               ` Philip K.
2021-02-11 15:59               ` Gregory Heytings
2021-02-11 16:20                 ` Philip K.
2021-02-11 17:48                   ` Gregory Heytings
2021-02-11 18:34                     ` Philip K.
2021-02-11 21:15                       ` Gregory Heytings
2021-02-11 22:48                         ` Philip K.
2021-02-12  0:01                           ` Gregory Heytings
2021-02-12 10:27                             ` Philip K.
2021-02-12 11:59                               ` Gregory Heytings
2021-02-12 13:23                                 ` Philip K.
2021-02-12 13:54                                   ` Gregory Heytings
2021-02-12 14:09                                     ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-02-12 16:04                                       ` Gregory Heytings
2021-02-12 17:25                                         ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-02-12 17:54                                           ` Gregory Heytings
2021-02-12 18:16                                             ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-02-12 21:48                                               ` Gregory Heytings
2021-02-13  0:37                                                 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-02-13  8:33                                                   ` Gregory Heytings [this message]
2021-02-13  9:09                                                     ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-02-13 13:06                                                       ` Gregory Heytings
2021-02-13 14:28                                                         ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-02-13 15:01                                                           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-02-13 16:08                                                             ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-02-13 15:02                                                           ` Gregory Heytings
2021-02-13 15:21                                                             ` Jean Louis
2021-02-13 15:28                                                               ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-02-13 15:39                                                                 ` Nothing is the list - " Jean Louis
2021-02-13 20:14                                                             ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-02-13 20:58                                                               ` Jean Louis
2021-02-13 21:18                                                               ` Gregory Heytings
2021-02-13 21:32                                                                 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-02-13 21:37                                                                 ` PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key (why only one?) " Jean Louis
2021-02-13 23:55                                                                   ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-02-14  6:19                                                                     ` Jean Louis
2021-02-14  6:33                                                                       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-02-14  8:06                                                                         ` Jean Louis
2021-02-14 18:30                                                                       ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-02-14 19:21                                                                         ` Jean Louis
2021-02-14 19:44                                                                           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-02-14 23:30                                                                           ` Drew Adams
2021-02-15  0:33                                                                             ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-02-15  5:59                                                                             ` Jean Louis
2021-02-14 17:59                                                                     ` Gregory Heytings
2021-02-14 18:14                                                                       ` libraries (was: Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key (why only one?) and reserve it for third-party packages) Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-02-14 18:23                                                                       ` PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key (why only one?) and reserve it for third-party packages Philip Kaludercic
2021-02-14 21:37                                                                         ` Gregory Heytings
2021-02-15  0:28                                                                           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-02-15  5:02                                                                           ` Robert Thorpe
2021-02-15 11:08                                                                             ` Gregory Heytings
2021-02-17  9:07                                                                               ` Robert Thorpe
2021-02-20 17:50                                                                                 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-02-14 18:30                                                                       ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-02-14 18:50                                                                         ` Gregory Heytings
2021-02-14 19:24                                                                           ` Jean Louis
2021-02-14 19:41                                                                             ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-02-14 23:30                                                                           ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-02-13 10:05                                                     ` PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key " Jean Louis
2021-02-13  8:24                                                 ` Jean Louis
2021-02-13 12:44                                                   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-02-13 14:26                                                     ` Jean Louis
2021-02-13 15:09                                                       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-02-13 15:24                                                         ` Jean Louis
2021-02-13 15:38                                                           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-02-13 15:45                                                             ` Jean Louis
2021-02-12  4:45                           ` Robert Thorpe
2021-02-12  9:58                             ` Philip K.
2021-02-11 16:59                 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-02-11 16:58             ` Drew Adams
2021-02-11 16:59             ` Leo Butler
2021-02-15 19:01 Gregory Heytings
2021-02-15 19:55 ` Dmitry Gutov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-02-08 10:02 Gregory Heytings
2021-02-08 16:41 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-02-08 22:01 ` Francis Belliveau
2021-02-09  0:05   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-02-10 22:54     ` Francis Belliveau
2021-02-09  6:31 ` Jean Louis
2021-02-09  9:13   ` Gregory Heytings
2021-02-10 11:17     ` Jean Louis
2021-02-09 17:13   ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-02-09 17:49     ` Gregory Heytings
2021-02-09 18:12       ` Drew Adams
2021-02-09 19:23         ` Gregory Heytings
2021-02-09 20:52           ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-02-09 21:15             ` Gregory Heytings
2021-02-09 21:47               ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-02-10 11:07                 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-02-10  9:05               ` Robert Thorpe
2021-02-10 14:42                 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-02-10 14:59                   ` Gregory Heytings
2021-02-09  8:13 ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-02-09  9:13   ` Gregory Heytings

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