From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Adding xterm-extras to Emacs Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:15:09 -0700 Message-ID: <200706131415.l5DEF98f009840@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> References: <200706122221.l5CMLMoY018433@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <200706122243.l5CMhMLv019775@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <200706130047.l5D0lqUE027336@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <877iq8kx46.fsf@dur.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181744223 16627 80.91.229.12 (13 Jun 2007 14:17:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:17:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Peter Heslin Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 13 16:17:02 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HyTef-0003C9-TC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:17:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HyTef-0000xn-1H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:17:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HyTeb-0000xM-Rb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:16:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HyTeZ-0000xA-Ft for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:16:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HyTeZ-0000x7-AM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:16:55 -0400 Original-Received: from oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.41]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HyTeY-0003GM-T5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:16:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mothra.ics.uci.edu (mothra.ics.uci.edu [128.195.6.93]) by oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l5DEF98f009840; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:15:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <877iq8kx46.fsf@dur.ac.uk> (Peter Heslin's message of "Wed\, 13 Jun 2007 10\:43\:53 +0100") Original-Lines: 33 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@mothra.ics.uci.edu X-detected-kernel: Solaris 9 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:72765 Archived-At: Peter Heslin writes: > Dan Nicolaescu writes: > > Oops, I didn't pay enough attention: there's no support for any M-S- > > key bindings. No idea why, there AFAICT nothing in emacs uses them and > > nobody requested them ... > > Hi Dan, Hi Peter, > When we discussed this by e-mail some time ago, I suggested that rather > than limiting term/xterm.el to those bindings currently used by Emacs, > we should provide mappings for all possible escape sequences emitted by > a current xterm with modifyOtherKeys set. That is certainly a valid approach. I didn't take because at the time I did that work emacs was in a feature freeze for the 22.1 release. I didn't want to have the changes postponed for after the release, so I tried to do the minimal, but still enough for useful work. > The reasons for this are: (1) it's hard to get a list of all bindings > used by all modes that ship with Emacs, and (2) many users define > additional bindings in their .emacs file which work with X11, and which > they might like also to work with xterm. I don't have a strong opinion about this, but before moving in that direction I would like to hear at least Eli's and Stefan's opinion. BTW, new packages are being accepted now in Emacs CVS, so this is probably a good moment to submit your ispell-multi and flyspell-babel...