Re: not good proposal: "C-z <letter>" reserved for users

[Gregory Heytings]

> [I had a hostile reaction here to what I perceived to be a hostile 
> remark from you. If that was a reaction to something I said, I 
> apologise.]

I admit I don't know which is the remark you perceived as a hostile one. 
Be assured that being hostile wasn't my intention; I try hard to not make 
any hostile remarks.

> > > Reserving keys for external packages means that Emacs needs some way 
> > > to deal with conflicting external key bindings, which will inevitably 
> > > arise.
> >
> > Yes, and this has been acknowledged from the outset.  It's a different 
> > problem however, these are conflicts between external packages, not 
> > between an external package and Emacs core or between an external 
> > package and users' personal bindings.
>
> I don't really see it as a different problem. To me it's immaterial 
> whether there's a conflict between Emacs and an external package, 
> between two external packages or between a user's bindings and an 
> external package; they're all conflicts caused by an external package 
> creating a global key binding.

Under the postulate that external packages should not create any global 
bindings, it's indeed the same problem ;-)