Re: Suggested experimental test

[Gregory Heytings]

> > > Well... the suggested experiment does not remove C-o, it changes C-o 
> > > in a way that is, I believe, painless.
> >
> > Sorry; I didn't read the patch carefully.  So it basically moves `C-o' 
> > to `C-o C-o' (and makes the `C-o' prefix open for new commands)?
> >
> > I don't use `C-o' myself, so I can't really say to what degree this 
> > would be annoying or not for users.  Any `C-o' users who have an 
> > opinion here?
>
> For now I count 3 people from mailing lists who already objected to it, 
> including me.

I've only seen one (you), and perhaps a second one (Alfred), but I'm not 
quite sure because he initially thought that open-line would be removed.

> How do you Lars insert new lines, before the current line with cursor?

I can't speak for Lars, but if this is something that I frequently needed, 
I would either learn the C-p C-e C-m sequence, or make it a command in my 
init file, for example:

(global-set-key (kbd "M-RET") (lambda () (interactive) (previous-line) 
(end-of-line) (newline-and-indent)))

(M-RET has a similar purpose in org-mode.)

> Gregory, don't you think that 3 users including me who expressed their 
> objections is not part of the experiment already?

No, precisely because nobody actually experimented the potential change. 
You cannot give an opinion on a change before experimenting it for some 
time, say, at least a day.