Re: Concern about new binding.

[Thibaut Verron]

2021-02-05 13:07 UTC+01:00, Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>:
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>>> A proposal to solve the current problem and future similar problems is
>>> to free one of the keys, and to mention in `(elisp) Key Binding
>>> Conventions' that it is, forever, reserved for external packages.
>>>
>>> This proposal has two forms: a weak and a strong one.  The weak one
>>> would only reserve the control key, the strong one would also reserve
>>> the meta and control-meta keys.
>>>
>>> The candidate keys for that proposal are "z", "t" and "o".
>>
>> C-z, C-t, and C-o are already taken
>>
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> I know this; I said "to _free_ one of the keys".
>
>>
>> C-t in particular is very useful and frequently-used (by me, FWIW), and
>> also matches the default binding in Bash, GDB CLI, and elsewhere.  A
>> recent discussion demonstrated that at least for C-z enough people are
>> against changing its binding, even though we have "C-x C-z" to do the
>> same.
>>
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> Yes, it is unavoidable that some people will be against changing a
> binding.  I have no preference between the three proposed keys, and
> anticipated that there would be more objections against using "t" for that
> purpose.  If we put "t" aside, there are still two other options: "z" and
> "o".
>
>>
>> These data points suggest that usurping these keys may not be easy, to
>> say the least.
>>
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> The meaning of the proposal is that the benefit of such a single change
> is, in the long term, largely superior to its loss in the short term.
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