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bug#22604: 24.5; (elisp) `Key Binding Conventions': what about other `C-
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Eli Zaretskii |
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bug#22604: 24.5; (elisp) `Key Binding Conventions': what about other `C-c' keys? |
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Tue, 09 Feb 2016 21:18:20 +0200 |
> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 10:33:28 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: schwab@suse.de, 22604@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > > Whether it should also cover other punctuation or other symbol chars
> > > is maybe an open question.
> > >
> > > It's really about character-inserting keys on a keyboard, not
> > > punctuation and symbol chars that are not on keys.
> >
> > Not sure I agree. Usurping too many characters would not be a good
> > idea, IMO.
>
> Usurping? From whom/what?
>From users and from other modes.
> It's about reserving this category of keys for minor mode keymaps.
Yes, and I don't think we want or should reserve too many characters.
> > How can such a binding be useful, when Emacs runs on a non-French
> > keyboard? Do we really want to encourage modes that can only be fully
> > functional in some specific locales? I don't think so.
>
> Why treat punctuation and symbols on a US keyboard specially?
> Why should `$' be treated differently from `€'?
Because most keyboards have the former, but not the latter.
> > Any reasons not to close the bug report?
>
> You can close it if you like. I would prefer that we think about
> handling the same category of char-inserting keys (punctuation and
> symbols) for other keyboards the same way we handle those for US
> keyboards. But if that is not to be then it is not to be.
We can think with the bug closed, and we can reopen later (or make a
change without reopening).
- bug#22604: 24.5; (elisp) `Key Binding Conventions': what about other `C-c' keys?, (continued)
- bug#22604: 24.5; (elisp) `Key Binding Conventions': what about other `C-c' keys?, Andreas Schwab, 2016/02/09
- bug#22604: 24.5; (elisp) `Key Binding Conventions': what about other `C-c' keys?, Drew Adams, 2016/02/09
- bug#22604: 24.5; (elisp) `Key Binding Conventions': what about other `C-c' keys?, Andreas Schwab, 2016/02/09
- bug#22604: 24.5; (elisp) `Key Binding Conventions': what about other `C-c' keys?, Drew Adams, 2016/02/09
- bug#22604: 24.5; (elisp) `Key Binding Conventions': what about other `C-c' keys?, Andreas Schwab, 2016/02/09
- bug#22604: 24.5; (elisp) `Key Binding Conventions': what about other `C-c' keys?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/09
- bug#22604: 24.5; (elisp) `Key Binding Conventions': what about other `C-c' keys?, Drew Adams, 2016/02/09
- bug#22604: 24.5; (elisp) `Key Binding Conventions': what about other `C-c' keys?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/09
- bug#22604: 24.5; (elisp) `Key Binding Conventions': what about other `C-c' keys?, Drew Adams, 2016/02/09
- bug#22604: 24.5; (elisp) `Key Binding Conventions': what about other `C-c' keys?,
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- bug#22604: 24.5; (elisp) `Key Binding Conventions': what about other `C-c' keys?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/09