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: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 08:37:51 -0500 Message-ID: References: <7ef75c33936136eb3a20@heytings.org> <87czxazbhr.fsf@melete.silentflame.com> <871rdqfaix.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87mtwd42ck.fsf@melete.silentflame.com> 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="3436"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eric@ericabrahamsen.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org, spwhitton@spwhitton.name To: thibaut.verron@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 11 14:51:44 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 1lACNj-0000lU-SP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 11 Feb 2021 14:51:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44144 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lACNi-0005FD-TH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 11 Feb 2021 08:51:42 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:42844) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lACAM-0003YI-MQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Feb 2021 08:37:54 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41199) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lACAM-0006uJ-9E; Thu, 11 Feb 2021 08:37:54 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lACAJ-0007Ai-IR; Thu, 11 Feb 2021 08:37:52 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Thibaut Verron on Wed, 10 Feb 2021 10:29:28 +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:264367 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. ]]] > > So you can type C-α C-α Foopkg RET, then C-α gives you the Foopkg bindings. > That seems like an extremely valuable binding to sacrifice for a > command which will most likely be only run once. Why do you think C-α C-α would be so valuable? I don't get it. (This is supposing we have made C-α a prefix for use by external packages.) > But maybe we could agree on a specific key, identical on all keymaps, > for that purpose. That would be similar to how C-\alpha ? is currently > reserved for describe-keymap. How is that different from what I said? -- 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)