From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>,
help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: [External] : About the key binding convention: C-x is reserved by emacs itself whereas the C-c prefix is used for user defined keybindings.
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 16:08:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <SJ0PR10MB5488ECE7718261F14E90461EF3A19@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGP6POJwf4ffwXY_fM4X6NZHn3_nsXTLvhAfD5qFzekjiXC8PQ@mail.gmail.com>
> There is the convention that the C-x is reserved by emacs itself
> whereas the C-c prefix is used for user defined keybindings.
No, there is NO such convention regarding C-x.
No key bindings are "reserved by emacs [for] itself".
The only "reserved" bindings are those reserved for
users. (And users can bind any keys they want;
they're not _limited_ to the keys reserved for them.)
This post of mine states the situation clearly (IMO):
https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/42166/105
(It's the accepted answer to the question you cited.)
Wrt C-x, it says this:
You'll note that there is no convention regarding
C-x. An unstated convention, or just good
advice/practice is this one, however: If you
replace some existing, standard Emacs binding
(i.e., one that you get from Emacs as distributed,
without loading any 3rd-party libraries) then that
might confuse or annoy some users of your code.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-21 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-21 5:20 About the key binding convention: C-x is reserved by emacs itself whereas the C-c prefix is used for user defined keybindings Hongyi Zhao
2021-09-21 16:08 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2021-09-21 17:54 ` [External] : " Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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