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

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Tue 09 Feb 2021 at 09:13AM +01, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> 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.

Aren't the current bindings under M-o intended for that halcyon future
in which we can use Emacs as a word processor, not just a text editor?
Like enriched-mode, but for file formats like .odt, where buffer faces
set with M-o get translated into something in the file format upon save.

I assume that most of the bindings under M-o were made with that sort of
usage of Emacs in mind.  It strikes me as a bit sad to unbind M-o as it
would sort of be saying that we no longer think Emacs is ever going to
be much use for editing non-plain text.

-- 
Sean Whitton