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From: Cecilio Pardo <cpardo@imayhem.com>
To: Peter Feigl <peter.feigl@nexoid.at>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Physical keyboard events
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 18:54:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a5979689-c54d-417f-8c55-fe566154d927@imayhem.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87msimhqba.fsf@nexoid.at>

On 29/10/2024 16:38, Peter Feigl wrote:

>> I will define a list of keys: LeftShit, RightShift, LeftControl, etc.
>> The platform dependent code will decide which one was pressed. As events
>> will be invisible, I don't think we will interfere with input methods.
> 
> I caution you to think about this very well, there are *very* many
> non-standard keyboards or remapped keyboards out there, where users
> expect everything to work.
> 
> In general, it is best to leave the mapping of physical keys to intended
> keypresses to whatever the operating system provides. In the specific
> case of Xorg, please only look at the keysyms, do not try to do anything
> magical with the scancodes, this will only result in a broken
> implementation.
> 
> I understand the wish to have this, but it is a way more complex topic
> than it looks like from a first glance.
> 
> I have had to deal with way too many bad implementations of this than
> wanting to deal with it in Emacs as well :-/
> 
> Sorry for the criticism, in case you have already thought about all of
> this and solved it, I'd really be interested in hearing more about it!

Thanks for the insight. I will keep it simple and be conservative. And 
ready to throw it all away if the result asks for it. :)





  reply	other threads:[~2024-10-29 17:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-28 23:15 Physical keyboard events Cecilio Pardo
2024-10-29 13:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-29 15:07   ` Cecilio Pardo
2024-10-29 15:38     ` Peter Feigl
2024-10-29 17:54       ` Cecilio Pardo [this message]
2024-10-29 23:41       ` James Thomas
2024-10-29 16:44     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-29 16:55       ` Yuri Khan
2024-10-29 17:46         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-30  2:56           ` Max Nikulin
2024-10-30  6:28             ` Yuri Khan
2024-10-30  6:39               ` Peter Feigl
2024-10-30 15:27               ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-30 17:13                 ` Yuri Khan
2024-10-30 17:37                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-30 19:26                     ` Dov Grobgeld
2024-10-30 19:36                       ` Juri Linkov
2024-10-30 19:55                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-30 15:21             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-30 16:59               ` Max Nikulin
2024-10-29 17:56         ` Cecilio Pardo
2024-10-29 17:52       ` Cecilio Pardo
2024-10-29 17:13 ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-10-29 18:20   ` Cecilio Pardo
2024-10-29 19:31     ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-10-29 21:45       ` Cecilio Pardo
2024-10-30  6:02         ` Yuri Khan
2024-10-30 15:23           ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-30 16:51             ` Yuri Khan
2024-10-30 17:25               ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-30  3:27       ` Eli Zaretskii

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