Re: Concern about new binding.

[Thibaut Verron]

2021-02-05 13:39 UTC+01:00, Thibaut Verron <thibaut.verron@gmail.com>:
> 2021-02-05 13:07 UTC+01:00, Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>:
>>
>>>> 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
>>>
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> 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".

(Sorry for the message I sent just now, it is really empty)

I also regularly use C-o to get some breathing room. I unbind C-z to
have a free key in tmux and screen, so I wouldn't mind freeing that
key.