From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Default Emacs keybindings Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 17:59:47 -0500 (CDT) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200405032259.i43MxkP13454@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <20040502211541.GA26227@fencepost> <85y8oa6nwi.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> <87n04paner.fsf@peder.flower> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083626185 31063 80.91.224.253 (3 May 2004 23:16:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 23:16:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lars@nocrew.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, storm@cua.dk, janneke@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue May 04 01:16:12 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BKmfU-0006qm-00 for ; Tue, 04 May 2004 01:16:12 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BKmfU-0000t5-00 for ; Tue, 04 May 2004 01:16:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BKmWH-0000mf-NH for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 03 May 2004 19:06:41 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BKmUW-0008Hr-QW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 May 2004 19:04:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BKmTw-00082B-OT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 May 2004 19:04:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BKmTL-0007iX-1z; Mon, 03 May 2004 19:03:39 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i43N3HTS023616; Mon, 3 May 2004 18:03:17 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id i43MxkP13454; Mon, 3 May 2004 17:59:47 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Mon, 03 May 2004 18:21:22 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:22662 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22662 Richard Stallman wrote: What we should do is include prominent documentation telling users how to remap their caps-lock key, with specific recipes. (I have no idea where to find this information for GNU/Linux.) >>From M-x man xmodmap: One of the more irritating differences between keyboards is the location of the Control and Shift Lock keys. A common use of xmodmap is to swap these two keys as fol- lows: ! ! Swap Caps_Lock and Control_L ! remove Lock = Caps_Lock remove Control = Control_L keysym Control_L = Caps_Lock keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L add Lock = Caps_Lock add Control = Control_L I would guess that this works not just on GNU/Linux, but also on various varieties of Unix as well. I do not know about other operating systems. Sincerely, Luc.