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

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > However, it would be possible to make M-z M-ANYTHING available for
  > > other bindings and reserve them for whatever we wish.  That would not
  > > conflict with the current meaning of M-z, because meta characters
  > > can't be in the buffer.

  > Wouldn't it be strange to first be queried for "Zap up to char: " and
  > then be expected to type another key to run some command from a
  > third-party package?

Yes, it would be -- but we can deal with that.
The promp could say  "Next Meta-character, or zap up to char:".

It could wait a second before prompting, so that experienced users
normally would not wait so long before typing the next key.



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