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: New key binding syntax Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2021 00:25:41 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20211004081724.6281.11798@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <52799093.VymdKvaGTe@galex-713.eu> <2190956.xXoMH3TJnQ@galex-713.eu> 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="8067"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alexandre Garreau Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 07 05:27:36 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 1mjZmJ-0001ut-K3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 07 Nov 2021 05:27:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54482 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mjZmI-0001es-7M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 07 Nov 2021 00:27:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52980) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mjZkW-0000rt-8m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Nov 2021 00:25:44 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:35294) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mjZkV-0007cb-SM; Sun, 07 Nov 2021 00:25:43 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=CGFpdQgu7NT26h5S92+NxD+xYieTcwoU8cU2XinDw98=; b=Fk5Nt4mCDFRi HiCPNkRzZdo/QMZtG7t3vxzunxg9Z8UdinXrKINkoSAn1Jy4wPc12V7mzDT8A/bPkgz2y3EHRkVQE LubZp3pRsrwK/G6PxYXPH3FmABRvQoB2m9UXby8CxUAWoCPj4fkWm6tBm5XlUbAW0LHz/pRdaoMrz iL5at70xDqYrlMAXrmEBj+0LmQVL6TBtMh/NZNqYwLHPEIl5UHAJK+xKQ7Dk/1l2zlH77g52WGIyO NUNNsjJGC7vuBUs+iWDE8ZoctULyjJCyaiS8bHjB9JBMUfP9AGZYpVdwpuyrP7FDNYXFMA6BshIq0 J4O/Eq8cU99cXVgzt5u3DQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mjZkT-0003Kw-UX; Sun, 07 Nov 2021 00:25:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: <2190956.xXoMH3TJnQ@galex-713.eu> (message from Alexandre Garreau on Fri, 05 Nov 2021 06:32:30 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:278912 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. ]]] > oh ok, so switching to being compatible/displaying like something more > standard and widespread such as “Ctrl+X Ctrl+C” (or shorter C+x C+c) > wouldn’t be out of question? In principle, we could adopt whatever syntax we want, as long as we keep the old code working. Introducing `kbd' enabled us to support a new, incompatible syntax alongside the original syntax. If we decide now on a syntax that is not upward compatible with `kbd', we could support it using a new function, perhaps `key'. -- 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)