Re: Emacs default key bindings [was: Opening Up More Keymaps Re: Standardizing more key bindings?]

[Philip K.]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> 3. There's been a tendency recently to give Emacs
> even more default key bindings.  Two cases come
> to mind, both in 2020:
>
> a. `C-x p' was taken by Emacs as a prefix key for
>    `project.el' commands.
> b. `C-x t' was taken by Emacs as a prefix key for
>    `tabbar.el' commands.
>
> Maybe those deserve prefix keys (?).  But you see
> the tendency - less and less for users; more taken
> by default bindings.
>
> That's 2 excellent prefix keys just removed, in
> effect, from the user/3rd-party space.  Poof!

I get that they were in effect removed from the 3rd-party space, but the
user is still the final arbiter in what is bound or not. Do you really
loose anything, if you rebind C-x p, if you don't use project.el? Same
goes for C-x t if you don't use tabs.

My point is that there seem to be varying degrees of importance to
key-bindings: Rebinding C-c, let alone a self-insert key is far more
disruptive than M-/, C-o, C-x, C-x a, etc. -- it's just difficult to
draw the line.

-- 
        Philip K.