Re: C-x SPC : rectangle-mark-mode or gud-break?

[Michael Welsh Duggan]

Drew Adams <address@hidden> writes:

>> I know I am opening up a can of worms here, but I am going to argue that
>> `C-x SPC' be changed back to `gud-break'.
>
> 1. `gud-break' should never have been given a global binding on prefix
> `C-x'.  It is fine for it to have a binding on `gud-key-prefix', i.e.,
> `C-x C-a'.  Why does it need a global binding?  And if it really does,
> for some reason, why sacrifice such an important global prefix key as
> `C-x' for it?

Nothing other than the fact that the keybinding has been around since at
least Emacs 18.58 (the first version I regularly used).  It's had a lot
of time for people to get used to it.

-- 
Michael Welsh Duggan
(address@hidden)