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

[Thibaut Verron]

2021-02-10 6:28 UTC+01:00, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>:
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> Suppose we reserve one key for third-party packages.  Let's refer to
> that key as C-α, to avoid specifying which key is chosen.
>
> Various packages will set up their own bindings for it.  If you load
> more than one such package, which package's bindings will you get?
> How do you get the ones you want?
>
> Here's an idea.
>
> Have one command you can use to specify which package's bindings C-α
> will run.  It could be C-α C-α; then individual packages will not give
> their own bindings for C-α C-α.
>
> So you can type C-α C-α Foopkg RET, then C-α gives you the Foopkg bindings.

That seems like an extremely valuable binding to sacrifice for a
command which will most likely be only run once.

But maybe we could agree on a specific key, identical on all keymaps,
for that purpose. That would be similar to how C-\alpha ? is currently
reserved for describe-keymap.