Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages

[Gregory Heytings]

> > For example you can move all C-x bindings to F7 with (progn (define-key 
> > global-map (kbd "<f7>") ctl-x-map) (define-key global-map (kbd "C-x") 
> > nil)).
>
> Does it work that easily though?

No it doesn't, it was just a short proof of concept, which works mostly.

> Observed: I get a “C-x-” prompt in the minibuffer, indicating C-x is 
> still acting as a prefix key. Indeed, pressing C-h reveals a number of 
> C-x 8 … bindings in key translations, and a bunch of C-x @ … bindings in 
> function key map translations.

Yes, as Andreas Schwab explained a few days ago in another thread, this is 
because C-x is a prefix key on the key-translation-map.