From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [External] : Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 14:33:07 +0300 Message-ID: References: <7e12c1c3c1aae58993e2@heytings.org> <8ed9b43502da52e07ff5@heytings.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="24464"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0 (3d08634) (2020-11-07) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Gregory Heytings Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 10 12:37:13 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1l9no1-0006GR-Gi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2021 12:37:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40792 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l9no0-0005gj-HJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2021 06:37:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58148) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l9nnV-0005ea-Ru for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2021 06:36:41 -0500 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:35477) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l9nnT-0005Pb-DH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2021 06:36:41 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:41.202.241.3]) (AUTH: PLAIN securesender, TLS: TLS1.2,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 000000000001DFF5.000000006023C544.00002CAB; Wed, 10 Feb 2021 04:36:35 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Gregory Heytings , Drew Adams , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8ed9b43502da52e07ff5@heytings.org> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:127768 Archived-At: * Gregory Heytings [2021-02-09 20:50]: > > > > > FWIW, I disagree with Gregory's proposal, which is a scaled-down version > > of my proposal, which is to reserve _ALL_ keys currently not bound by > > default, for 3rd-parties to use. He proposes to reserve only one key > > for that. > > > > That's not the proposal, that's the way you look at the proposal. The > proposal is to free one or two keys, and to reserve them for third-party > libraries. Freeing one or two keys is (would be) an effort from the > viewpoint of Emacs, which would give more freedom to both Emacs (to use the > other keys as it wishes) and to third-party libraries (to use these keys as > they wish Unbound key I found is M-n and there are those like M-[ M and M-]