Camm Maguire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Greetings! I maintain cxref, which does not provide an emacs minor
> mode, but does have an .el file with useful C editing functions bound
> by default to C-c ? key combinations. A bug was filed, saying that
> C-c was reserved for the user.
By my reading of the docs, the bug was incorrect.
The conventions are defined in the elisp manual "(elisp) Coding
Conventions". Here's the quote
* Please do not define `C-c LETTER' as a key in your major modes.
These sequences are reserved for users; they are the *only*
sequences reserved for users, so do not block them.
Instead, define sequences consisting of `C-c' followed by a control
character, a digit, or certain punctuation characters. These
sequences are reserved for major modes.
Changing all the Emacs major modes to follow this convention was a
lot of work. Abandoning this convention would make that work go
to waste, and inconvenience users.
* Sequences consisting of `C-c' followed by `{', `}', `<', `>', `:'
or `;' are also reserved for major modes.
* 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.
So, as a minor mode, it seems that C-c ? is perfectly fine. (It also
does not appear that debian policy overrides this specific stuff.)
I'd point out the elisp manual and close the bug, personally.
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