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

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > 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.

Why do you think C-α C-α would be so valuable?  I don't get it.
(This is supposing we have made C-α a prefix for use by external packages.)

  > 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.

How is that different from what I said?


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