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

[Philip Kaludercic]

Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> writes:

>>>> Sorry for protracting the conversation, I just think the
>>>> interpretation of the guideline is important.
>>>
>>> Not for the proposal itself.
>>
>> Well yes, because if packages may bind to C-c *with* the consent of
>> users, the need for a special package map decreases.
>>
>
> As I said, IMO it does not, it can't work as a long-term solution, 26
> letters is simply not enough.  Anyway, neither I nor you can decide
> what the "correct" understanding of that guideline is, so I suggest we
> stop arguing.  A proposal has been made, we'll see what the
> maintainers do with it.

I agree. I was thinking about asking emacs-devel for opinions on the
matter, that will probably make more sense, and might result in a
rephrasing.

>> The way I see it is that there is no need for a value like 'best,
>> because this whole idea is that magit wants to bind their keys by 
>> default, but it shouldn't bind it to C-c g. If you're going to set
>> magit-define-global-key-bindings to 'best, you might just as well 
>> directly bind magit-status to C-c g. I think it would be totally ok
>> for Magit to have the default value set to nil, and then bind to C-c
>> g, but that undermines their entire motivation, as there would be no
>> default binding.
>
> Do you use Magit?  Magit binds three commands globally when
> magit-define-global-key-bindings is t (its default value):
> magit-status to C-x g, magit-dispatch to C-x M-g, and
> magit-file-dispatch to C-c M-g. Magit recommends to rebind the last
> one (magit-file-dispatch) to C-c g, and there is no special value for
> magit-define-global-key-bindings, and no code elsewhere in Magit, to
> do that automatically.

I use MELPA Stable, so my version of Magit is from 2018, so the only one
I use magit-status.

-- 
        Philip K.

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