From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#38296: Allow Option key to be modifier for non-char key and mouse events Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 01:40:49 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20191121211207.GA96045@breton.holly.idiocy.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="57176"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: alan@idiocy.org, 38296@debbugs.gnu.org To: Mattias =?UTF-8?Q?Engdeg=C3=83=C2=A5rd?= Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 27 07:41:13 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iZr0i-000EhU-6i for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 07:41:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34732 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iZr0f-00058n-Kn for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 01:41:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54418) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iZr0Z-00058U-8X for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 01:41:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iZr0Y-0006At-6u for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 01:41:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:47378) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iZr0Y-0006Ai-3e for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 01:41:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iZr0Y-0006uY-1M for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 01:41:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 06:41:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 38296 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 38296-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B38296.157483685826550 (code B ref 38296); Wed, 27 Nov 2019 06:41:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 38296) by debbugs.gnu.org; 27 Nov 2019 06:40:58 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53351 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iZr0T-0006u7-VG for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 01:40:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:45302) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iZr0R-0006tt-Rk for 38296@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 01:40:56 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44890) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iZr0M-00062e-Kt; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 01:40:50 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iZr0L-0007X9-7S; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 01:40:49 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Mattias =?UTF-8?Q?Engdeg=C3=83=C2=A5rd?= on Mon, 25 Nov 2019 20:15:31 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:172512 Archived-At: [[[ 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. ]]] > Looking at Mitsuharu Yamamoto's Mac port made me change my mind: it solves the problem by allowing the variables to have values on the form (:ordinary SYMBOL :function SYMBOL :mouse SYMBOL), defining each modifier key separately for ordinary keys, function keys and mouse events. I'd like to understand what that feature does, but I can't tell from that text. Does it come with any documentation? If so, coulod you please show it? Also, are you proposing we implement this for ALL platforms (that would be clean and simple, in principle)? Or just SOME platforms? -- Dr Richard Stallman Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)