Re: Suggested experimental test

[Sean Whitton]

Hello Gregory,

On Sun 21 Mar 2021 at 10:48AM GMT, Gregory Heytings wrote:

>>> May I suggest the attached, slightly more controversial, experimental
>>> test?
>>
>> Removing `C-o' has already been suggested, and there's already been a
>> lot of negative feedback on that, if I remember correctly.  So I don't
>> think there's much point in doing this experiment.
>>
>
> Well... the suggested experiment does not remove C-o, it changes C-o in a
> way that is, I believe, painless.  We cannot know whether it is indeed
> painless without experimenting at a larger scale.  The few who objected
> against changing C-o may well find out, after trying it out, that this
> small change is not as bad as they thought.
>
> As far as I remember, there has not been a lot of negative feedback on
> changing C-o, the negative feedback was (to my surprise) mostly about the
> possibility of changing the behavior of C-z.

To be honest, changing C-o feels like changing C-y -- in fact, I
probably type C-o more often than I type C-y.

-- 
Sean Whitton