Re: Concern about new binding.

[Ergus]

On February 5, 2021 12:21:02 PM GMT+01:00, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2021 09:21:20 +0000
>> From: 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, and are very old bindings.  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.
>
Hi Eli:

IIRC there were not agreement about what to do with C-z. BUT not really many 
people against the change itself. There was the suggestion to use C-z C-z and 
C-z z (ala M-g g) inside the new C-z map that made happy many old C-z users. 
Then the problem was the lack of a decision and a deadline to decide. 

Sometimes I feel that we need just a pool application to vote and a deadline. 
to decide about. And we will save a lot of emails.

>These data points suggest that usurping these keys may not be easy, to
>say the least.

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