From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Concern about new binding. Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2021 00:39:34 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20210202134950.vybbpf3iewbymfjo.ref@Ergus> <20210202134950.vybbpf3iewbymfjo@Ergus> <9031b3534bc714b3d062@heytings.org> <80548b30-1c15-cea1-d3a9-afd5cca18113@gmx.at> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="35059"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: gregory@heytings.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 04 06:40:49 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1l7XNo-0008ys-Rp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 04 Feb 2021 06:40:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56758 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l7XNn-0005WU-UV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 04 Feb 2021 00:40:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55876) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l7XMh-0004cc-W9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Feb 2021 00:39:40 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:58975) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l7XMf-0002Vr-UR; Thu, 04 Feb 2021 00:39:38 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1l7XMc-0003n6-K1; Thu, 04 Feb 2021 00:39:35 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from martin rudalics on Wed, 3 Feb 2021 12:06:30 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:263843 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Isn't it a bit ridiculous to desperately search for free keybindings for > one given prefix while another prefix offers them for free? Systematic use of a prefix for a certain purpose makes it easier to remember. That is very important for a system as complex as Emacs. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)