From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Brinkhoff Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs key bindings reserved for the user C-c [a-zA-Z] Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 22:29:37 +0200 Organization: nocrew Message-ID: <85mwzzz6mm.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349555395 28576 80.91.229.3 (6 Oct 2012 20:29:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 20:29:55 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 06 22:30:02 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1TKb0Z-0007qv-SI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2012 22:29:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40097 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKb0U-0007oq-0t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2012 16:29:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52748) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKb0R-0007ok-Vo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2012 16:29:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKb0Q-00045d-Sa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2012 16:29:51 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:55629) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TKb0Q-00045V-La for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2012 16:29:50 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TKb0R-0007nG-TV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2012 22:29:51 +0200 Original-Received: from c-4957e555.012-14-67626717.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se ([85.229.87.73]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 06 Oct 2012 22:29:51 +0200 Original-Received: from lars by c-4957e555.012-14-67626717.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 06 Oct 2012 22:29:51 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-4957e555.012-14-67626717.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Nbyqm3x55/yD7IrpcK0vBQ7Xczw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:154141 Archived-At: Ali Tofigh writes: > 1) How long has this convention been in place and when where the major > modes changed accordingly? In NEWS.1-17: > GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 26-Mar-1986 > Copyright (C) 1986 Richard M. Stallman. > > Changes in Emacs 17 > > * C-c is always a prefix character. > > Also, subcommands of C-c which are letters are always > reserved for the user. No standard Emacs major mode > defines any of them. I also checked the ITS EMACS info file (which loads just fine in recent versions of info): ftp://ftp.trailing-edge.com/pub/ftp.its.os.org/ai/info/emacs.147 But apparently, C-c had a different meaning back then.