Re: Using AltGr as standard modifier key in emacs

[<tomas@tuxteam.de>]

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On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 12:05:18PM +0600, Yuri Khan wrote:

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Thanks for your lucid exposition of the problem.

> In light of (2), it is desirable that (a) the layouts in Emacs and the
> desktop environment are identical, (b) the keys to switch layouts are
> identical, and (c) the scope of layout switching is consistent. All
> three conditions are easiest satisfied by exclusively using the
> desktop-provided keyboard layout mechanism and ignoring Emacs input
> methods completely [...]
> desktop’s layouts using Emacs input methods, but I believe that is a
> dead end approach. There should be one, and preferably only one,
> implementation of keyboard layout mechanism over the whole desktop.)
> 
> However, this comes at a cost. Because of the way modifiers work in
> Emacs when running as a GUI application, the user has no way of
> pressing e.g. C-c or C-x or M-x when a non-Latin layout is active.
> Instead, Emacs interprets the keypresses as being C- or M-modified
> letters of the active layout.

There are other costs -- among them that Emacs' input methods are usually
more advanced (and better integrated in Emacs) that whatever the desktop
can offer.

regards
- -- tomás
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