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

[Howard Melman]

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

> Ctrl-Z is mentioned as suspending the job in almost every popular
> shell on GNU/Linux systems and BSD systems. Number of installations of
> those systems in Internet prevails. Administrators access it through
> shell.

I'm aware there are terminal emacs users, I'm just not one
of them.  You seemed to have missed the part where I said
"In the terminal it's suspend and in the GUI move (and
rename via an alias) the ctl-x-5-map to C-z.".  

I was proposing to leave the binding of C-z in terminal
emacs to be a suspend function and just change it in the GUI.

>> This then frees up C-x 5 as a prefix key.  It's probably a
>> year too late (though this muscle memory can't be too strong
>> yet), but I'd move the C-x t tab-bar commands to C-x 5 and
>> free up the more convenient C-x t prefix for something else.
>> It's not as convenient as an unbound C-z but it's something.
>> And it also solves the wasted C-x 5 prefix in a terminal
>> which no one seems to care about :)
>
> I have been using C-x 5 numerous times today and every day, last year
> and last years. I hope that those user experiences may give you more
> insights. 

Also the part where I said "I suspect this is changing
something too longstanding to be considered but the subject
is "not good proposal" so ..." 

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Howard