bug#3540: Please reserve a ctrl-key combination for interoperability

[Stefan Kangas]

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:

> Psychologically, many people hesitate to rebind default keys for various
> reasons.  While it is unreasonable for the manual to suggest binding
> particular keys to particular commands, I would find it very reasonable
> to encourage users to customize Emacs, including rebinding keys - also
> the defaults.

To my mind, the manual already covers what you discuss above.  The
"Intro" section says:

   “Customizable” means that you can easily alter the behavior of Emacs
commands in simple ways.  For instance, if you use a programming
language in which comments start with ‘<**’ and end with ‘**>’, you can
tell the Emacs comment manipulation commands to use those strings (*note
Comments::).  To take another example, you can rebind the basic cursor
motion commands (up, down, left and right) to any keys on the keyboard
that you find comfortable.  *Note Customization::.

That said, we can of course always do better.  I believe it would be
easier to discuss a more concrete proposal.  Would anyone be willing
to propose a patch?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas