Florian Beck <f...@miszellen.de> writes: > On 28.01.2014 10:08, Bastien wrote: > >> I think most of these keybindings could migrate to a C-c C- version. > > There is no need for migrating them IMO. > > The recommendation is: > > Sequences consisting of `C-c' followed by any other punctuation > character are allocated for minor modes. Using them in a major > mode is not absolutely prohibited, but if you do that, the major > mode binding may be shadowed from time to time by minor modes. > > This means important commands should have a binding reserved for major > modes. But there is absolutely no need to remove bindings which (for > many org users) have worked just fine for a long time.
But it's not just a matter of satisfying rules: it's a matter of making it easy on users. Having a "bad" binding as well as a "good" binding for something would mean that if I load a minor mode that takes over the "bad" binding, I would then lose it in the major mode and have to remember the "good" binding. That's more confusing IMO than having a single "good" binding: if we need to retrain fingers, we need to retrain them once, not every time we load a minor mode that steps on some binding. I find myself more in agreement with Seb than with Bastien here. The argument that reducing the number of "bad" bindings reduces the chance of conflicts does not hold water IMO: we will always have to be looking in the rear-view mirror for some minor mode that will step on us. If it's an important enough problem to solve, we should just follow the emacs guidelines in their entirety. -- Nick
