On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 10:34 AM Eli Zaretskii <
address@hidden> wrote:
> and ask
> the user what she would like to do about, with 3 possible answers
> being "rebind", "don't rebind", and "error out of 'load'"?
>
> Would that halt emacs startup with that prompt?
It would stop the load of the features which redefines the keys.
What I meant is that what if the user is starting emacs using emacsclient and that prompt interferes with the startup process. It can get very irritating.
> If so, I believe that would cause an annoyance for a lot of
> users who might have already shadowed bindings.
That's why I proposed to do that only once, the first time this
ever happens for a key or a group of keys.
So the preference would be saved via Customize interface.
> What if define-key is instead made to throw a message or a warning?
What's the difference between a message and a warning?
I meant just a message.
Anyway, this could also be good, but its disadvantage is that it
doesn't let the user an opportunity to reject the rebinding.
That right.
I think this should be an interactive feature, not a non-interactive
one.
I thought of above so that the people don't shadow the bindings unknowingly in their config. I personally never set bindings interactively; may be many others do the same. So I cannot tell how much impact this will have if this happens just interactively.