Re: [External] : New key binding syntax

[Alexandre Garreau]

Le vendredi 19 novembre 2021, 13:43:02 CET Eli Zaretskii a écrit :
> > From: Alexandre Garreau <galex-713@galex-713.eu>
> > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, stefankangas@gmail.com,
> > drew.adams@oracle.com Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2021 12:33:32 +0100
> > 
> > > > Why? everybody does that now and that’s strictly more recognizable
> > > > for
> > > > most of people (especially newcomers) nowadays
> > > 
> > > Does that mean you want us to go through all our manuals and the
> > > tutorial, and change C-x and C-M-y into Ctrl+x and Ctrl+Alt+y?  And
> > > then change all the key-binding APIs to accept the above notation as
> > > well?  Because if we don't do that, there will be two very different
> > > ways of specifying key sequences, and that will confuse newcomers
> > > even
> > > more.
> > 
> > Yes, and as I said it would be even more nice to have a special
> > syntax/
> > command in texinfo to specify keysequences, so they can be
> > programmatically all be changed very easily, in case the user rebinds
> > them, so not only emacs’ C-h is updated, but the info manual as well
> > (and that could be useful as well for any software whose keys can and
> > commonly are rebound)
> 
> Well, you certainly expect others to do a lot of work here.

I don’t expect anything from anyone.  That’s a lot of work, and volunteers 
cannot be considered responsible for keeping the status quo because that 
involves (gratis) work (+ maintainance goes before the rest, and it’s 
already voluntary work).

What you already do of course is already amazing :)

Anyway initially I was just suggesting to merely *allow* for a + to 
replace a -, for the future, given what’s possible, and what’s done out 
there.