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

[Gregory Heytings]

> > How about C-\ or C-^? Historically these were used as substitutes for 
> > C-s and C-q when editing via serial lines (and there's still a function 
> > enable-flow-control that activates it). Certainly that's no longer a 
> > frequent use case?
>
> C-\ is used to set the input method.  But we could move that 
> functionality to C-^, and then give up C-\ to third party packages.

Except that \ is hard to type on most keyboards: C and \ are the two most 
distant keys on the most widespread keyboard layout (QWERTY), and on other 
keyboards \ requires pressing Shift or AltGr.  Not exactly an appealing 
prefix.