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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> The problem is that `C-z' is really useful in a terminal, and having the
>> keystrokes diverge to a great degree between GUI Emacs and terminal
>> Emacs would be unfortunate.
>>> Of the global M-bindings, `M-o' seems least useful to me.
>> Indeed.
>
> And yet the corresponding feature is *preloaded* :-(
>
>         Stefan "whose M-o is unbound because his local Emacs patches
>                 include removing that part of loadup.el"
>
> PS: It took me a bit if digging to figure out why my M-o was unbound.
> That's a change I made a very long time ago.

We've previously discussed doing time-limited experiments -- perhaps
this is a good test case for that.

That is, I propose that we remove the `M-o' binding on the trunk for one
month, and see how many (if any) complaints we get.

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