From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Current mode command discovery Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2021 15:32:08 +0300 Message-ID: References: <87v9aubm96.fsf@gnus.org> <87r1laomak.fsf@gnus.org> <83pn0uzubj.fsf@gnu.org> <87im6molnq.fsf@gnus.org> <83o8geztvt.fsf@gnu.org> <871rdar6i3.fsf@igel.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="24946"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0 (3d08634) (2020-11-07) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, Andreas Schwab , larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Alfred M. Szmidt" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 28 13:34:13 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lGLH3-0006OI-Hj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2021 13:34:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53482 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lGLH2-0004l0-IH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2021 07:34:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43390) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lGLGA-0004Jj-Le for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2021 07:33:19 -0500 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:41213) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lGLG8-0007Rl-BR; Sun, 28 Feb 2021 07:33:17 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:41.210.141.35]) (AUTH: PLAIN securesender, TLS: TLS1.2,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 000000000001E07E.00000000603B8D87.00004792; Sun, 28 Feb 2021 05:33:10 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: "Alfred M. Szmidt" , Andreas Schwab , eliz@gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:265747 Archived-At: * Alfred M. Szmidt [2021-02-20 23:18]: > > Should be noted that M-S-x is tricky to get working on console > > M-X works on any terminal. > > M-S-x does not work in _any_ terminal, there are plenty of dumb ass > terminals in embedded systems (sometimes custom, sometimes BSD, > sometimes GNU, sometimes some other Unix) that are capable of running > Emacs just fine where it does not work and it is a pain to setup. > > That is what _my_ experience is, I am happy for you and others that it > works for you, but lets stop pretending that everyone runs the exact > same thing, and everything works the exact same way for everyone. To add user report to it, on Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre OS: I have tried M-S-x on Emacs GUI, and it is not detected by C-h k in the Emacs version from 2021-02-20. in XTerm, the shift is not detected, M-S-x is detected as M-x in console (tty) it is not detected, M-S-x is detected as M-x