From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Pogonyshev Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: wish: right alt/meta to switch keyboard layout while pressed Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:52:29 +0200 Message-ID: <200511232152.30278.pogonyshev@gmx.net> References: <200511222150.54248.pogonyshev@gmx.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1132775495 20519 80.91.229.2 (23 Nov 2005 19:51:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 19:51:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 23 20:51:28 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ef0cU-0004iC-2H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 20:49:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ef0cT-0000Db-8o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:49:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ef0cJ-0000D7-CG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:49:19 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ef0cH-0000Cs-Tl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:49:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ef0cH-0000Cn-P0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:49:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [213.165.64.20] (helo=mail.gmx.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Ef0cH-000116-MY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:49:18 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 23 Nov 2005 19:49:14 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (EHLO [194.158.221.106]) [194.158.221.106] by mail.gmx.net (mp002) with SMTP; 23 Nov 2005 20:49:14 +0100 X-Authenticated: #16844820 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:46487 Archived-At: Richard M. Stallman wrote: > As far as I can tell, Emacs currently just ignores the right Alt. > > Why does Emacs ignore the right Alt key? It seems to me that > (at least normally) it should be equivalent to the left Alt key. Probably because X distinguishes between the two Alts (I don't know the details) and Emacs only considers the left Alt as Meta key. It may also depend on how X is configured. > I would not mind if some other feature were optionally added to it, > but we should not think about that now. OK. Paul