From: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>,
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
Andrew Goh <andrewgoh95@yahoo.com.sg>,
41403@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41403: A more user-friendly version of GNU Emacs
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2021 22:42:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YUujQN9Rr8seyPKR@idiocy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkm=sFN2os2KhrSgDiyfX7GVmBY8x0+iPBUDAkdJigKVDjA@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 04:41:40PM +0200, Stefan Kangas wrote:
> (Many users move meta to the "cmd" key (⌘), because it is much more
> ergonomic on an Apple keyboard. I have no idea why this isn't the
> default.)
Because we define NEXTstep shortcuts which are all on the command key,
so if we used it for meta as well they would get in each others way
quite quickly.
Plus the Mac's "option" is actually the same key as an IBM keyboard's
"alt", so when you plug in a PC keyboard alt and super do exactly what
you'd expect. In fact Apple keyboards even have "alt" written on the
option key.
And I think saying it's "much more ergonomic" is overstating the case
a little. The keys are right next to each other.
--
Alan Third
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2020-05-19 13:08 ` bug#41403: A more user-friendly version of GNU Emacs Andrew Goh via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-05-19 14:43 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-19 22:48 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-05-19 23:02 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-17 16:42 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-17 20:57 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-17 22:04 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-09-18 13:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-21 20:13 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-21 20:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-21 23:07 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-21 23:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-22 0:30 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-09-22 21:24 ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-22 21:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-23 6:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-22 14:41 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-22 15:57 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-09-22 20:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-22 22:28 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-22 21:42 ` Alan Third [this message]
2021-09-22 22:28 ` Stefan Kangas
[not found] ` <1269710845.1235081.1589931944379@mail.yahoo.com>
2020-05-20 0:55 ` Stefan Kangas
[not found] ` <919459122.1576791.1589981239406@mail.yahoo.com>
2020-05-20 13:37 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-17 18:44 ` Eduardo Ochs
[not found] <DE284271-933A-4DB1-9D01-2E21F43E6201@acm.org>
2021-09-22 18:01 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-09-22 18:47 ` Mattias Engdegård
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