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

[Gregory Heytings]

> > Having a complete keymap at the disposal of third-party libraries means 
> > that there are (at least) 26 letters free; each of them can be bound to 
> > a separate keymap.
>
> That's still much less than what can be bound to several such prefix 
> keys.

That's wrong, both from a practical and from a theoretical point of view.

> From a practical point of view, the bindings in (B) are not deeper/longer 
than the bindings in (A):

|      (A)      |      (B)      |
|---------------|---------------|
| C-x j         | C-o j         |
| C-x j = f     | C-o j = f     |
| C-x j t . % + | C-o j t . % + |
| C-x 4 j       | C-o 4 j       |
| C-x x :       | C-o x :       |
| C-x x t e     | C-o x t e     |
| C-x x t + b   | C-o x t + b   |

> From a theoretical point of view: the number of available keys is, in both 
cases, aleph-zero.

> No argument for how you can put lots of stuff on a single prefix key can 
> overcome the fact that more prefix keys give you more than does one 
> prefix key.

"No argument can."?  "A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards 
the rest." (Simon & Garfunkel)