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Re: Opening Up More Keymaps Re: Standardizing more key bindings?


From: Thibaut Verron
Subject: Re: Opening Up More Keymaps Re: Standardizing more key bindings?
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2020 18:24:55 +0200

Le dim. 4 oct. 2020 à 15:46, Alfred M. Szmidt <ams@gnu.org> a écrit :
   The exact same arguments could apply to C-c being "replaced" by C-x C-c.

There is a big difference in that C-c is already used by Emacs for
other things, one is for users, and the second is for local
keybindings in modes.  Changing that would break quite a bit of
things.

I meant when C-c was chosen, I wasn't suggesting to change things now. 

But if C-x C-c for C-c was never too confusing, C-x C-z for C-z should be fine too. 

In any case, C-z can display a message guiding the user to the proper key sequence. And one could argue that C-c could show such a message too(without breaking anything). 

C-z z or similar for suspend with a message seems like a good
compromise.

I agree in general, with a preference for C-z C-z. But if C-z becomes a prefix key, C-z C-z (or even C-z z) will have the same "prime" status as C-c C-c today. 

If C-z is purely for users with the exception of binding to suspend-frame, it should not be a problem, as users can always override it they don't care about tty suspend.

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