Re: Representation of the Emacs userbase on emacs-devel

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 06.09.2021 16:52, Arthur Miller wrote:
> By the way, how much work would it be to switch C-x and M-x prefixes to C-space 
> and
> M-space respectively. That way someone could rebind keys to resemble more of
> "modern" key usage (C-o, C-x, C-v etc ). C-z would need rework in terminal. But
> generally, if a prefix can be remaped automatically, it would be an easy thing 
> to
> start with?

These particular prefixes seem too much effort IMHO (but AFAIK Evil 
users like SPC as prefix, so what do I know).

The overall approach, however, is something we have discussed, and yes, 
we'd need some way for third-party code and the users to specify both 
prefixes indirectly (so that they in the end can depend on the current 
profile). Whether it's through a couple of global variables, or through 
some special (kbd) syntax, or through some other novel method, remains 
to be worked out.