Subject: Re: bug#24902: Antw: [EXT] Re: bug#24902: 25.1; C-x = for Unicode

From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2022 00:06:55 -0500

[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]

If "splitting" C-x = means what I think it means, it implies using two
key sequences instead of one.  That would be a significant cost.

Would this change offer any practical benefit?

  > <Shrug> They are different commands with evidently different goals, so
  > making them new commands sounds appropriate to me.

That is an improvement in conceptual neatness, but I don't think it is worth
the practical price of two keys where one key now serves.

  > The intent is to have something that's useful for a larger portion of
  > the users on `C-x ='?

That could be an improvement, depending.  What, concretely, would that
command do?

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)