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

[Gregory Heytings]

> > > Wasn't C-\alpha supposed to be a global keybinding?  org-mode speciic 
> > > bindings don't make sense outside of org-mode and mode specific 
> > > keybindings already have a set that is already reserved for them.
> >
> > Org-mode has indeed its own bindings when you are in an org-mode 
> > buffer, but three of its commands make sense / are designed to be used 
> > outside of org-mode buffers: org-agenda, org-capture and 
> > org-store-link.
>
> So just random thinking, since we have calendar mode, and diary mode. 
> And those do not have a global binding, why should 
> org-agenda/org-capture/org-store-link get one?

Because someone who installs Emacs does not (in general) do that with the 
specific intention of using calendar mode or diary mode, whereas someone 
who installs org-mode does it with the specific intention of using 
org-mode?

That being said, I would not object if Emacs decided to give a global 
binding to some of the built-in apps (calendar, calc, gnus, diary, ...).

> Or why not put org-store-link under C-x r ?

That would be possible, but there are not many free letters there, and if 
org-mode did this it would take the risk to have the chosen key reclaimed 
by Emacs for another purpose at any time.