Re: Physical keyboard events

[Cecilio Pardo <cpardo@imayhem.com>]

On 29/10/2024 20:31, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

>> The way I hope to implement it, there will be no interference if you
>> don't activate it. Many editors such as VSCode and the ones from
>> JetBrains use this, and people appreciate it.
> 
> Somebody not activating it will not have access to the commands which
> other people assign to these new key combinations.  That could be a
> problem.

This bindings would be reserved for the user, not for packages default 
bindings. Of course, we can't control what packages do.

>> I was planning for GUI systems alone.
> 
> That's a very un-Emacs like thing to do.  Apart from specifically
> graphicky things, the convention is that features are available
> regardless of whether on a GUI or a TUI.  For this reason, bindings like
> C-<up> are frowned upon, although they are used in some places (hello,
> Org!).

It is practically imposible to do it on ttys, I think.

I wish I could implement this in lisp, or as a module, but that is not 
possible. Can only be implemented modifying emacs core.

This is almost a toy thing, so I'll leave it as there is disagreement.

Thanks for your time.