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

[Thibaut Verron]

2021-02-10 12:33 UTC+01:00, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>:
> * Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> [2021-02-09 20:50]:
>>
>> >
>> > 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
>
> Unbound key I found is M-n and there are those like M-[ M and M-]

M-n (and its sister M-p) are used for navigating history in a lot of modes.