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

[ken]

On 02/12/2021 04:05 PM, Howard Melman wrote:
> 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 would break a lot of things unnecessarily.  For one, any code a 
user has written which functions fine in his/her gui would fail if one 
day it was used in emacs invoked in a terminal.

... also if someone wanted to test emacs code outside any possible 
effect of the window manager.  How would that be done?

... people would also need to write separate or additional code for 
functions running in a gui or in a terminal.

And there would certainly arise instances where people on this list 
would be trying to help a user with a problem which would be confounded 
by whether the user was in a terminal or in a gui.

There are times when I simply want to suspend (minimize) an emacs frame 
in the gui and so use C-z to do that.  I can't believe I'm the only 
emacs human doing that.

One of the many wonderful things about emacs is that it's platform 
independent.  Let's not sacrifice that.