RE: [External] : Re: Concern about new binding.

[Drew Adams]

> > Reserving keys for external packages won't solve the fundamental
> > problem here: two external packages may still decide to use
> > the same key bindings, causing similar conflicts for users
> > that install both.
> 
> As far as I know there has never been any serious
> conflict of this kind.

Agreed.

(But as I pointed out, there are 3rd-party libraries
and 3rd-party libraries.  A well-known, heavily used
library is different in this regard from a small
shared user library.  The potential problem is there
for 2 or more large, heavily-used libraries to have
conflicting bindings.  But I too don't see even that
as much of a problem, in practice.  The problem of
trying to compete with Emacs default bindings is a
much bigger, more real problem - it's the problem at
the heart of this thread, IMO.)

> Basically, it's been first-come-first-served in the community for a
> while, and small packages not complaining when their binding was taken
> by someone who became bigger.

Yup.  Well put.

> It seems to work, and it doesn't seem to make a difference whether a
> key is recommended or bound for that.

Yup (for some meaning of "work" ;-)).