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

>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull <[email protected]> writes:

Stephen> QUERY

SY> Putting `zap-up-to-char' on a long-standing non-destructive
SY> keybinding should never have happened.

Stephen> I disagree as a matter of policy.  There is no way to improve
Stephen> keymappings if we can't even beta test them because of "backward
Stephen> compatibility."

Stephen> Surprising and destructive, yes.  So are lots of things in beta
Stephen> tests, although normally they're not intentional.

Stephen> I'm actually neutral on the patch itself, but before the patch is
Stephen> discussed I think this is a policy issue that should be hashed out
Stephen> every so often.  The last time was several years ago, and the
Stephen> composition of the active board has changed dramatically since then.

I disagree that the old binding was non-destructive.  I would always
get angry when XEmacs would get iconified because of this.  Putting
something so drastic on a 1-key sequence seemed wrong to me.

Now whether `zap-up-to-char' is a good new binding is debatable.  I
personally would vote for leaving C-z unbound entirely, especially as
some modes (Ben's HTML mode) use it as a prefix key.  (I know, I know,
but there we are.)

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