From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Emacs-Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Qs on key-description, substitute-command-keys
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 09:12:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r7altxpf.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <iua2l1he1uja4t1opog2846s4g4q0c0cjo@4ax.com> (John S. Yates, Jr.'s message of "Sat, 15 Oct 2005 14:00:09 -0400")
> While I can understand the impulse behind this heuristic, it ultimately
> seems paternalistic ("we need to prepare you for the great variety of
> terminals that you may encounter").
No, it's just done for lack of anything better. Currently, Emacs almost
never knows which keys you have access to. The only exception is that we
try to figure out whether you have both `delete' and `backspace', but
already that only works in some restricted cases.
> 1) Emacs can usually query the environment to determine the nature of the
> keyboard in use. With this information it can exclude bindings that would
> be impossible to produce.
Patch welcome,
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-16 13:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-04 23:55 Qs on key-description, substitute-command-keys Drew Adams
2005-10-05 16:23 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-10-05 16:39 ` Drew Adams
2005-10-14 22:53 ` Drew Adams
2005-10-15 11:27 ` Juri Linkov
2005-10-15 14:25 ` Drew Adams
2005-10-16 14:40 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-15 11:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-10-15 14:35 ` Drew Adams
2005-10-16 13:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-10-16 14:40 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-15 18:00 ` John S. Yates, Jr.
2005-10-16 13:12 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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