From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Customary prefix for custom keybindings Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 16:51:42 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <961785d7-9b3a-4d87-b574-58c6402c794a@ri8g2000pbc.googlegroups.com> References: <8771710d-4166-4bab-9240-020dc5dd159f@vy8g2000pbc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1333583719 6773 80.91.229.3 (4 Apr 2012 23:55:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 23:55:19 +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 Apr 05 01:55:19 2012 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 1SFa2m-0003qa-BD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 01:55:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42303 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SFa2i-0006hK-86 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2012 19:55:12 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!ri8g2000pbc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.126.112.84 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1333583502 22325 127.0.0.1 (4 Apr 2012 23:51:42 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 23:51:42 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: ri8g2000pbc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.126.112.84; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.142 Safari/535.19,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:191912 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84326 Archived-At: On Apr 4, 11:55=C2=A0am, "Drew Adams" wrote: > > By official gnu emacs manual's guideline, (info "Key Binding > > Conventions") the key space for users are the function keys F5 to F9, > > and ?Ctrl+c=C2=A0=E2=80=B9letter=E2=80=BA?. that's it. > > Those are _reserved_ for users. =C2=A0But users can bind any keys they li= ke. > > That is, users not only can do that, but they are not discouraged from do= ing so. > > Just be aware that other keys are not reserved, which means only that pro= grams > are not discouraged from binding them. =C2=A0You need to override any exi= sting > binding for such a key that some library might make (instead of letting t= he > library override you ;-)). good point. Xah