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Re: C-c LETTER transgressions

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From: Stephen Gildea
Date: Fri, 17 May 1991 14:56
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    [2]  Telling people not to use C-c without suggesting an alternative
    is promoting chaos.  How shall you set your keybindings?  Just pick
    some other prefix key that you're sure isn't in use?  They're mighty
    scarce.


As I understand it (I can't point to any reference), the key-space is
allocated like this:

C-c LETTER is reserved for users' customizations
C-c <anything else> is reserved for special packages and major modes
<everything else> is reserved for core Emacs

Note that the "C-c non-letter" space need not have agreement between
packages, because typically you only have one active at a time.  Keys
of the form "C-c C-letter" are common here, but "C-c ;" is part of
this space, too.

 < Stephen
   MIT X Consortium
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