From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Switch Meta and Alt modifiers Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 08:44:03 +0200 (IST) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: quimby2.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1014273994 24671 195.204.10.66 (21 Feb 2002 06:46:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Feb 2002 06:46:34 GMT Cc: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby2.netfonds.no with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16dmzx-0006Pp-00 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 07:46:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16dmyo-0004gn-00; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 01:45:22 -0500 Original-Received: from is.elta.co.il ([199.203.121.2]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16dmyL-0004c0-00; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 01:44:54 -0500 Original-Received: from is (is [199.203.121.2]) by is.elta.co.il (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA02751; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 08:44:03 +0200 (IST) X-Sender: eliz@is Original-To: Richard Stallman In-Reply-To: <200202202212.g1KMCV713398@aztec.santafe.edu> Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: quimby.gnus.org gmane.emacs.devel:1378 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:1378 On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Richard Stallman wrote: > The reason is that it's specific to X. > > Is it needed, other than with X? As far as I know, only X > has so many modifier keys, and only with X is there any need to modify > what maps to what. AFAIK, all the supported versions, with the exception of the Unix tty, support those modifiers. As Jason pointed out, a similar facility already exists in the Windows port (and another one is in the DOS port). I think it would be nice to have a single facility that is platform independent. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel