Re: Standardizing more key bindings?

[Nikolay Kudryavtsev]

Hi.

So I'm one of those people who loves to torture his muscle memory and 
I've tried most of the major variations of Emacs keybinding systems over 
the years, this being the vanilla, Evil(Spacemacs) and ErgoEmacs.

This led me to thinking that maybe Emacs actually needs a separate 
intermediate level of abstraction for keybinding customization. And the 
solution that came to my head is something akin to Clojure's protocols. 
The problem is that there are cases where we have multiple 
interconnected keybindings, the most simple example being 
cut-copy-paste. Lets say we have a cut-copy-paste protocol and the 
default keybinding implementation of it that's shipped with Emacs. Then 
the CUA-mode becomes an alternative keybinding implementation of that 
protocol. Same thing with comint. As such, a package developers would be 
able to define that their package uses this and that protocol and then 
they'll automatically get the bindings. And the keybinding system 
developers can just provide alternative bindings for existing protocols 
and their job will be done, in the ideal world of course. This way we'll 
accomplish keybinding polymorphism.

Anyway, just presenting probably the most over-engineered solution to 
this problem.

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Best Regards,
Nikolay Kudryavtsev