From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Customary prefix for custom keybindings Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 11:55:10 -0700 Message-ID: <9D40E0F53F404DE8A94811E93FF0048D@us.oracle.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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1333566443 12245 80.91.229.3 (4 Apr 2012 19:07:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 19:07:23 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Xah Lee'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 04 21:07:22 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 1SFVY8-00025p-Qv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2012 21:07:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54846 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SFVMe-0004nD-1u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:55:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:39934) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SFVMY-0004lm-FK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:55:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SFVMW-0008AY-Si for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:55:22 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com ([148.87.113.117]:38483) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SFVMW-0008AO-Lw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:55:20 -0400 Original-Received: from ucsinet22.oracle.com (ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id q34ItFxu024983 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 4 Apr 2012 18:55:16 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt356.oracle.com (acsmt356.oracle.com [141.146.40.156]) by ucsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q34ItF9S008196 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 4 Apr 2012 18:55:15 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt107.oracle.com (abhmt107.oracle.com [141.146.116.59]) by acsmt356.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id q34ItBgV019868; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 13:55:14 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:55:11 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 In-Reply-To: <8771710d-4166-4bab-9240-020dc5dd159f@vy8g2000pbc.googlegroups.com> Thread-Index: Ac0Sk8gWn9oMEOoBRd6VRnBvgXVIlgAACOdQ X-Source-IP: ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94] X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090202.4F7C9915.002A,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 148.87.113.117 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:84319 Archived-At: > 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=A0=8Bletter=9B?. that's it. Those are _reserved_ for users. But users can bind any keys they like. That is, users not only can do that, but they are not discouraged from = doing so. Just be aware that other keys are not reserved, which means only that = programs are not discouraged from binding them. You need to override any = existing binding for such a key that some library might make (instead of letting = the library override you ;-)).