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: master 859190f 2/3: Convert some keymaps to defvar-keymap Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2021 18:22:20 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20211004081724.6281.11798@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20211004081727.4F24921048@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <871r4qcs8s.fsf@gnus.org> <87o87ubcnl.fsf@gnus.org> <87h7dm9en7.fsf@gnus.org> <818f9907c2b1fe8b54b1@heytings.org> <83tuhlnkxm.fsf@gnu.org> <818f9907c2f359a71f49@heytings.org> <83czo9nj4g.fsf@gnu.org> <818f9907c244b9db0bea@heytings.org> 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="19012"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org, stefankangas@gmail.com To: Gregory Heytings Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 15 00:23:25 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 1mb98G-0004lG-RY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 15 Oct 2021 00:23:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46288 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mb98E-0000TU-Uj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 14 Oct 2021 18:23:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52182) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mb97F-00088i-HD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Oct 2021 18:22:21 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:36432) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mb97E-0005q9-TO; Thu, 14 Oct 2021 18:22:20 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mb97E-0006UO-Ga; Thu, 14 Oct 2021 18:22:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: <818f9907c244b9db0bea@heytings.org> (message from Gregory Heytings on Wed, 13 Oct 2021 14:28:17 +0000) 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:277076 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. ]]] > No need to apologize. But what do you (and others) think of the idea? > It would be a (IMO elegant) way to "phase out strings (where every char > represents an event)". I think we should deprecate that method of specifying keys for binding and (over time) convert all its uses to something nicer. But we should not delete the support for it -- not ever. It would cause gratuitous trouble to break all old programs like that. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)