From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rustom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs key bindings through the ages Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:45:31 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <317e0b9f-b77c-4261-9e4f-75be69519e9c@d27g2000prf.googlegroups.com> References: <1195020235.983333.46390@o38g2000hse.googlegroups.com> <85hcjnrdfa.fsf@usenet.my.skamphausen.de> <9cdd2de9-993b-4eae-87c4-0ea884bfd97e@w73g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <5588daf5-c96f-461d-9d01-2a736ad4d38d@i29g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195234838 27712 80.91.229.12 (16 Nov 2007 17:40:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:40:38 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 16 18:40:43 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1It5BD-0002OM-E3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:40:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1It5B0-0007oU-EL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:40:22 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!d27g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.16.158 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1195231531 26806 127.0.0.1 (16 Nov 2007 16:45:31 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:45:31 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: d27g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.16.158; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070508 Iceweasel/2.0.0.4 (Debian-2.0.0.4-0etch1), gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Content-Disposition: inline Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:153859 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:49286 Archived-At: On Nov 16, 8:45 pm, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" wrote: > rustom wrote: > > 3. Likewise keybindings. After Lennart pointed towards 'sticky keys' I > > immediately tried them out but I found it too intrusive -- it keeps > > popping up some dialog at me. Of course more fine-tuning may be > > possible -- having shift as a 'chord' but alt and control as 'sticky' > > but I dont know how to do it. > > Those dialogs that pops up does not sound good. What OS/window manager > are you using? What OS? debian etch What window manager? Not sure how to answer that... gnome. More technically correct answer (I guess) is metacity though I know nothing about the level below gnome.