From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Default Emacs keybindings Date: 04 May 2004 09:02:26 +0200 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> <200405032259.i43MxkP13454@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083654942 15091 80.91.224.253 (4 May 2004 07:15:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 07:15:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Luc Teirlinck , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue May 04 09:15:35 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 1BKu9P-0000fH-00 for ; Tue, 04 May 2004 09:15:35 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BKu9P-00019g-00 for ; Tue, 04 May 2004 09:15:35 +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 1BKtxK-0000cG-Cd for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 04 May 2004 03:03:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BKtxF-0000bw-LR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 May 2004 03:03:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BKtwj-0000RD-1K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 May 2004 03:03:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BKtwi-0000R8-Pk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 May 2004 03:02:28 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1BKtwi-0002DO-3q; Tue, 04 May 2004 03:02:28 -0400 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Lines: 21 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:22683 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22683 Eli Zaretskii writes: > > Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 17:59:47 -0500 (CDT) > > From: Luc Teirlinck > > > > Richard Stallman wrote: > > > > 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.) > > > > >From M-x man xmodmap: > > xmodmap is only for working on X, IIRC it doesn't help if one runs > Emacs from a console or logs in remotely via a terminal emulator. So > this is not a universal solution, not even on a GNU/Linux machine. Catering for the most common usage is better than catering for none. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum