RE: [External] : Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages

[Gregory Heytings]

> FWIW, I disagree with Gregory's proposal, which is a scaled-down version 
> of my proposal, which is to reserve _ALL_ keys currently not bound by 
> default, for 3rd-parties to use.  He proposes to reserve only one key 
> for that.

That's not the proposal, that's the way you look at the proposal.  The 
proposal is to free one or two keys, and to reserve them for third-party 
libraries.  Freeing one or two keys is (would be) an effort from the 
viewpoint of Emacs, which would give more freedom to both Emacs (to use 
the other keys as it wishes) and to third-party libraries (to use these 
keys as they wish).

Your proposal, "to reserve _ALL_ keys currently not bound by default", has 
I fear no chance whatsoever to be adopted.  Emacs evolves, and deciding 
that it cannot bind any new key from now on would be an arbitrary 
constraint that would impair its evolution.