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Re: Standardizing more key bindings?


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Standardizing more key bindings?
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2020 10:00:04 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>> The first question is, should thee bindings be conceptually global?
>> I don't think so.
>> 
>> To make them global means they conflict with a lot more other bindings,
>> and that makes the task of choosing these bindings harder.
>> It also means that the change would be a bigger incompatibility.
>> 
>> Thus, I think we should plan on having these bindings only
>> in the major modes that involve talking to an intepreter.
>
> They could also be defined by prog-mode, which is (or should be) the
> parent of all programming modes.

My experiment in this direction (which I posted earlier in this thread)
makes `prog-proc-mode` a derived mode of `prog-mode` because not all
programming languages have a corresponding REPL.


        Stefan




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