Re: Call for Discussion: Changing keymap [Take `zap-up-to-char' off `C-z']

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I disagree as a matter of policy.  There is no way to improve
> keymappings if we can't even beta test them because of "backward
> compatibility."
>
> Surprising and destructive, yes.  So are lots of things in beta
> tests, although normally they're not intentional.
>
> I'm actually neutral on the patch itself, but before the patch is
> discussed I think this is a policy issue that should be hashed out
> every so often.  The last time was several years ago, and the
> composition of the active board has changed dramatically since then.

What exactly are we discussing?  If not the patch itself, then I presume
the topic is any change to the keymap.  If that is the case, then I see
no problems with the idea in principle, so long as we draw attention to
the change somehow.
-- 
Jerry James
http://www.ittc.ku.edu/~james/