From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Emacs keyboard Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 21:07:59 -0600 Organization: NewsGuy - Unlimited Usenet $23.95 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1355368219 16373 80.91.229.3 (13 Dec 2012 03:10:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 03:10:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 13 04:10:33 2012 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 1TizBt-0001sy-PC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Dec 2012 04:10:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37004 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TizBg-0005k8-Qs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:10:16 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news6 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p87993e3899d8c9a57a6e9431ff6ddee3c17fd9c56e602439.newsdawg.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120907 Thunderbird/15.0.1 X-Received-Bytes: 1454 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:195841 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:88159 Archived-At: Hey Emacsers: Does any of you know of a keyboard still in production that has dedicated keys for both alt and meta keys? (two of each, one right and one left). If such a thing were to exist could Emacs use all of the mod keys (shift, ctl, meta, super, hyper, alt)? The os could sense all of these depressed at once but it's pretty difficult to accomplish ergonomically. Four of these (two on each side) could be latched (made sticky in hardware) and then be unlatched by being pressed again or combined with an alpha key in a succeeding keychord. For example, after C-h k and then pressing a bunch of mod keys I get: C-H-M-S-s-a is undefined I think this is the limit on usb keyboards (6 key rollover). Would Emacs sense and allow binding to the A-C-H-M-S-s-a keychord if the hardware allowed it? (ps2). Thanks, Ed