From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Which modifier to use? Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2020 08:40:05 +0300 Message-ID: References: <2d40cc5817c659d9d4b502fc359f6c12@isnotmyreal.name> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15653"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0 (3d08634) (2020-11-07) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: TRS-80 Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 06 06:44:11 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1klmqA-00040T-UP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 06 Dec 2020 06:44:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57364 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1klmq9-0003Kp-W0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 06 Dec 2020 00:44:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50398) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1klmpE-0003KV-7w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Dec 2020 00:43:12 -0500 Original-Received: from static.rcdrun.com ([95.85.24.50]:38587) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1klmpC-00059h-HU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Dec 2020 00:43:11 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.157.0.57]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.2,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by static.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000002C0006.000000005FCC6F6C.00004F19; Sun, 06 Dec 2020 05:43:07 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2d40cc5817c659d9d4b502fc359f6c12@isnotmyreal.name> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=95.85.24.50; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=static.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: 14 X-Spam_score: 1.4 X-Spam_bar: + X-Spam_report: (1.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_SBL_CSS=3.335, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:126084 Archived-At: * TRS-80 [2020-12-06 00:30]: > > On 2020-12-05 10:03, Arthur Miller wrote: > > > > I leave Super to my window manager and xbindkeys; and all other > > modifiers go to applications. It is a rule. Makes life easier if you > > switch between Windows and GNU/Linux > > Luckily I can avoid Windoze nearly 100% of the time nowadays, however I > still follow this rule and think it's a great idea, anyway. > > I use i3 (wm) and have lots of custom keybindings at the OS/WM level, > they are all based on using Super as modifier. So, in my mind, Super > (aka "Win") has to do with window manager. > > Inside Emacs, I also group related keybindings behind a sort of "leader" > key, for example (dk here is alias for define-key, stricty to shorten > these lines so I can keep nice formatting): > > (dk global-map (kbd "C-c y") '("Yankpad" . nil)) > (dk global-map (kbd "C-c y c") '("Capture" . I see it is better to describe keys.