From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs key bindings through the ages Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:48:48 +0100 Message-ID: <473DD800.1010505@gmail.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> <317e0b9f-b77c-4261-9e4f-75be69519e9c@d27g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195235386 29676 80.91.229.12 (16 Nov 2007 17:49:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:49:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: rustom Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 16 18:49:49 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 1It5K1-0006Bg-85 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:49:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1It5Jk-0004Ft-FB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:49:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1It5JN-0004CJ-Vd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:49:02 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1It5JK-000433-5t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:49:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1It5JJ-00042g-Ke for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:48:57 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1It5JJ-0004ha-5w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:48:57 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:61769 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1It5JG-0003P7-3T; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:48:54 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <317e0b9f-b77c-4261-9e4f-75be69519e9c@d27g2000prf.googlegroups.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 071115-0, 2007-11-15), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1It5JG-0003P7-3T. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1It5JG-0003P7-3T b9a6a62496ef69fa77a06620b0b69d1e X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:49287 Archived-At: 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. I think Gnome have a special mailing list about usability. Maybe you should tell them?