coding guidelines? (was Re: Key bindings proposal)

[Joe Brenner]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:

> Using `remap' is one way to express such an intention.
> I would welcome patches that try to make intentions more clear
> (e.g. eliminate the massive hardcoding of the "C-c" prefix all over the
> place) and have myself replaced bindings to TAB and to M-q many times by
> settings of indent-line-function and fill-paragraph-functions.

Rather than hardcoding "C-c", what are we supposed to do?

Are these guidelines documented anywhere?

(The elisp manual is full of examples where "C-c" is hardcoded.)