Re: [External] : Re: Concern about new binding.

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   >>> Most (All?) keyboards today have a Super key -- why not allocate that 
   >>> or parts of it to global third-party packages?
   >>
   >> Because the super modifier cannot be used in a terminal or console?
   >
   > That is simply not true.

   That's what I thought until today, but indeed I may be wrong.  Could you 
   please explain how it is possible to use the super modifier in a console?

Without any reconfigs, "C-x @ s x" for s-x (see the
event-apply-FOO-modifier functions).

On GNU/Linux systems you can rebind Super_L/R to a Fn key or some
other such thing, and use it that way.  I think you can check the
loadkys and dumpkeys commands.

   The proposal is only to create a key space in which third party packages 
   could automatically create global key bindings, without conflicting with 
   Emacs core (that is, without rebinding any key bound in vanilla Emacs) and 
   without conflicting with users' personal settings.

There is no reason to free up M-o for that specific purpose, for
example.  Drew's moratorium suggestion is also a good solution, and
does not remove functionality.