Re: Standardizing more key bindings?

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > 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.

There are quite a few programming modes where these operations are not
useful -- compiled languages which don't have an interpreter.

Perhaps someday C will have an interpreter.  (I tried to get that
done, 30 years ago.)  One could argue that the interpreter keys
should be kept available for that purpose even in C mode.

On the other hand, those keys might have existing definitions in these
modes, and finding other bindings for those definitions could be a
pain.  And that would be an incompatible change.

On the gripping hand, it wouldn't be hard to make the specific modes
override the new prog-mode bindings with their traditional definitions.

So I guess it is ok to put them in prog-mode.

But that presumes we use just one command to implement each
of these operations, in all the modes where they are useful.

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