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Re: Concern about new binding.
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Thibaut Verron |
Subject: |
Re: Concern about new binding. |
Date: |
Fri, 5 Feb 2021 13:41:22 +0100 |
2021-02-05 13:39 UTC+01:00, Thibaut Verron <thibaut.verron@gmail.com>:
> 2021-02-05 13:07 UTC+01:00, Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>:
>>
>>>> A proposal to solve the current problem and future similar problems is
>>>> to free one of the keys, and to mention in `(elisp) Key Binding
>>>> Conventions' that it is, forever, reserved for external packages.
>>>>
>>>> This proposal has two forms: a weak and a strong one. The weak one
>>>> would only reserve the control key, the strong one would also reserve
>>>> the meta and control-meta keys.
>>>>
>>>> The candidate keys for that proposal are "z", "t" and "o".
>>>
>>> C-z, C-t, and C-o are already taken
>>>
>>
>> I know this; I said "to _free_ one of the keys".
>>
>>>
>>> C-t in particular is very useful and frequently-used (by me, FWIW), and
>>> also matches the default binding in Bash, GDB CLI, and elsewhere. A
>>> recent discussion demonstrated that at least for C-z enough people are
>>> against changing its binding, even though we have "C-x C-z" to do the
>>> same.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, it is unavoidable that some people will be against changing a
>> binding. I have no preference between the three proposed keys, and
>> anticipated that there would be more objections against using "t" for
>> that
>> purpose. If we put "t" aside, there are still two other options: "z" and
>> "o".
(Sorry for the message I sent just now, it is really empty)
I also regularly use C-o to get some breathing room. I unbind C-z to
have a free key in tmux and screen, so I wouldn't mind freeing that
key.
- Re: Concern about new binding., (continued)
- RE: [External] : Re: Concern about new binding., Drew Adams, 2021/02/05
- Re: [External] : Re: Concern about new binding., Jean Louis, 2021/02/12
- Re: Concern about new binding., Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/05
- Re: Concern about new binding., Gregory Heytings, 2021/02/05
- Re: Concern about new binding., Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/05
- Re: Concern about new binding., Thibaut Verron, 2021/02/05
- Re: Concern about new binding.,
Thibaut Verron <=
- Re: Concern about new binding., Stefan Kangas, 2021/02/06
- Re: Concern about new binding., Ergus, 2021/02/06
- Re: Concern about new binding., Jean Louis, 2021/02/12
- RE: [External] : Re: Concern about new binding., Drew Adams, 2021/02/05
- Re: Concern about new binding., Ergus, 2021/02/05
- Re: Concern about new binding., Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/05
- Re: Concern about new binding., chad, 2021/02/05
- RE: [External] : Re: Concern about new binding., Drew Adams, 2021/02/05
- RE: [External] : Re: Concern about new binding., Gregory Heytings, 2021/02/05
- RE: [External] : Re: Concern about new binding., Drew Adams, 2021/02/05