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On 3 Jul 2024, 17:27, at 17:27, Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org> wrote:
>Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Wed, 3 Jul 2024 at 20:53, Stefan Monnier
><monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>> > At that point, the <prefix> <left> and <prefix> <right> keys no
>longer
>>> > make sense, because, clearly, buffers are arranged in a vertical
>list
>>> > rather than a horizontal strip.
>>>
>>> AFAIK these commands cycle through the list of buffers, so I think
>of it
>>> as a circle, and I'd rather use keys like <clockwise> and
>>> <counter-clockwise>.
>>
>> You probably said that in jest, but there are in fact many keyboards
>> that feature rotary encoders that can emit key or mouse events when
>> turned, and people do configure those to switch tabs in browsers,
>> among other uses. (On the wire, it still looks like Ctrl+PgUp and
>> Ctrl+PgDn, because that’s what browsers and editors expect.)
>
>Yeah. I've been meaning to hook up a https://monogramcc.com/ to Emacs
>for a while now.  There'd be something viscerally satisfying about
>going
>back and forth in undo history using that large rotary dial.  Sadly, no
>Linux drivers yet. :-(