From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to keep key bindings working after switching keyboard layout Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 00:41:12 +0100 Message-ID: <87d1sqy293.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <56A4C66C.5070002@gaydenko.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453679248 28589 80.91.229.3 (24 Jan 2016 23:47:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 23:47:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 25 00:47:18 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aNUNH-0004Yt-0h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 00:47:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33746 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aNUHr-0005LH-Qf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2016 18:41:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60362) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aNUHh-0005KJ-4P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2016 18:41:30 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aNUHc-00008L-6A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2016 18:41:29 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:40615) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aNUHb-00008A-W3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2016 18:41:24 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aNUHW-0001yP-Kp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 00:41:18 +0100 Original-Received: from nl106-137-227.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.227]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 00:41:18 +0100 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-227.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 00:41:18 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-227.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:bBZ9Wdf0PUYxhErhOccqdBk/2rk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:108840 Archived-At: Yuri Khan writes: > Some people here will suggest that you use Emacs’ > input method mechanism, activated by command > “toggle-input-method”. This has the advantage that > key bindings “just work”, but now you have > a different layout switching key and a different set > of layouts in Emacs than the rest of your desktop. This can be remedied as well by bringing everything into Emacs - which has many other advantages as well! Some of the most rewarding/obvious examples are: Thunderbird -> Emacs Gnus Firefox -> Emacs w3m Irssi -> ERC man pages -> M-x man -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573