From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Default Emacs keybindings Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 18:21:22 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040502211541.GA26227@fencepost> <85y8oa6nwi.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> <87n04paner.fsf@peder.flower> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083623850 26373 80.91.224.253 (3 May 2004 22:37:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 22:37:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lars@nocrew.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, storm@cua.dk Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue May 04 00:37:11 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 1BKm3i-0004R5-00 for ; Tue, 04 May 2004 00:37:10 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BKm3i-0000BX-01 for ; Tue, 04 May 2004 00:37:10 +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 1BKm2t-00054w-Mc for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 03 May 2004 18:36:19 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BKlvq-0000th-GV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 May 2004 18:29:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BKloW-0005Lh-C0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 May 2004 18:22:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BKloU-0005J2-7t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 May 2004 18:21:26 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1BKloQ-0000PK-PL; Mon, 03 May 2004 18:21:22 -0400 Original-To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen In-reply-to: <87n04paner.fsf@peder.flower> (message from Jan Nieuwenhuizen on Mon, 03 May 2004 11:08:12 +0200) 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:22658 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22658 I do not want to change the Emacs key bindings drastically for the usual keyboard mapping. We already support the keys that beginning users normally use. That is enough catering to them. 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.)