Re: Will default key bindings spell the death of Emacs?

[Richard Stallman]

    > We already have a feature that does more or less that job: the feature
    > of rebinding a command to another alternate command.  For instance, a
    > major mode, instead of rebinding C-n, could rebind next-line.

    I think what's needed is the other way round: modes bind a symbolic
    <next-line> function key, and the Church of Emacs uses C-n to invoke
    that symbolic function key, whereas the heretic Viperians use j to
    invoke the same.


    And then dired, say, could bind something to <next-line> and
    Viperians can then type j to invoke the special dired function.

Sorry, I don't see the difference.  As far as I can tell, the existing
feature does exactly this.