Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages

[Gregory Heytings]

> I _kind of_ like this general idea because the current situation is 
> getting kind of hazardous. _But_ if any of these do happen, make sure 
> the symbol for the sub-keymap is exposed so the user can move the whole 
> thing somewhere else from init code.

That would be the case, by design.  One or two keymaps would be created, 
which you could assign to any other key.  For example you can move all C-x 
bindings to F7 with (progn (define-key global-map (kbd "<f7>") ctl-x-map) 
(define-key global-map (kbd "C-x") nil)).