Re: Key prefix reserved for users in Gnus

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Thu, Apr 13 2006, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
>
>> I do the same, but I wouldn't recommend it to novice users.  The main
>> point is that we can guarantee that Gnus won't bind `v' in the future.
>
> True, but do we want to?  It's the final unused key [...],

`v' is the only one (beside `y') that is left in all important Gnus
modes (group, summary, server).  There are still some lower case
letters left in group mode.  In summary only v, y and z.

> and we may want to use it for something new and spiffy we invent at
> some point.

If it's so spiffy, we could get rid of some duplicate binding (most of
the single letter keys still have a binding in some other map) of a
less spiffy feature¹.  Reserving `v' gives the user the possibility to
bind feature important to him/her to simple key such as `v a' ... `v
z'.

Bye, Reiner.

¹ E.g., I can't recall that I ever used these summary keys either
  because I only remember some other binding (b - K v, u - !) or
  because I never used the command (i, w).

  b   gnus-article-view-part
  i   gnus-summary-news-other-window
  u   gnus-summary-tick-article-forward
  w   gnus-summary-stop-page-breaking
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