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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
> Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2021 09:54:59 -0700
> Cc: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>,
>  Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> 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.

We could make these bindings local to the modes where they are
relevant, for example Text mode and its descendants.  There's no need
for a global binding, at least not necessarily.