bug#3540: Please reserve a ctrl-key combination for interoperability

[Stefan Kangas]

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
>
>> Psychologically, many people hesitate to rebind default keys for various
>> reasons.  While it is unreasonable for the manual to suggest binding
>> particular keys to particular commands, I would find it very reasonable
>> to encourage users to customize Emacs, including rebinding keys - also
>> the defaults.
>
> To my mind, the manual already covers what you discuss above.  The
> "Intro" section says:
>
>    “Customizable” means that you can easily alter the behavior of Emacs
> commands in simple ways.  For instance, if you use a programming
> language in which comments start with ‘<**’ and end with ‘**>’, you can
> tell the Emacs comment manipulation commands to use those strings (*note
> Comments::).  To take another example, you can rebind the basic cursor
> motion commands (up, down, left and right) to any keys on the keyboard
> that you find comfortable.  *Note Customization::.
>
> That said, we can of course always do better.  I believe it would be
> easier to discuss a more concrete proposal.  Would anyone be willing
> to propose a patch?

Since no one has proposed any concrete changes within 5 weeks, I'll go
ahead and close this bug.  As I write above, we already highlight the
possibility to change key bindings in the "Intro" section of the
manual.  There also didn't seem to be any big enthusiasm for reserving
any new key bindings either.

If anyone disagrees with that, please reopen the bug.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas