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From: | Gregory Heytings |
Subject: | Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages |
Date: | Tue, 09 Feb 2021 17:19:10 +0000 |
How about C-\ or C-^? Historically these were used as substitutes for C-s and C-q when editing via serial lines (and there's still a function enable-flow-control that activates it). Certainly that's no longer a frequent use case?C-\ is used to set the input method. But we could move that functionality to C-^, and then give up C-\ to third party packages.
Except that \ is hard to type on most keyboards: C and \ are the two most distant keys on the most widespread keyboard layout (QWERTY), and on other keyboards \ requires pressing Shift or AltGr. Not exactly an appealing prefix.
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