From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Key bindings proposal Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 03:21:24 -0700 Organization: xahlee.org Message-ID: <4C651CA4.5060808@gmail.com> References: <0LflI2-1PHZPs2uvS-00oe0Z@mx.perfora.net> Reply-To: xahlee@gmail.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: dough.gmane.org 1281698548 31099 80.91.229.12 (13 Aug 2010 11:22:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:22:28 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 13 13:22:27 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjsLB-0000RK-VR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:22:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43220 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OjsLA-0004WG-O7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:22:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56364 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OjrOD-0006aH-7J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 06:21:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjrOC-0005s8-6d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 06:21:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pv0-f169.google.com ([74.125.83.169]:50312) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjrOC-0005rk-2N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 06:21:28 -0400 Original-Received: by pvc30 with SMTP id 30so1343908pvc.0 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 03:21:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:reply-to :organization:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=mShe6QLq6/OZOX+kiIG3u0pTVjJB0D9xFuhq6jPcQEY=; b=bCQh2teo0l2pSTy5ntc0gP171EKlIRY/mekbpYHsv8w22tbXC1l2BU1AbxUFIGjwAJ rn2WWcz3MP6pQ54l26XWjqbqiMVNTUYQ9WyjPfljhAnlgmlhi0TYuL9eCyolQhRz6lyu mLzSKoNw0SDQsqAyUJK39bM9XiNVTXCPTsDhs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:organization:user-agent:mime-version :to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=jeyvCJXMCxXRqdOEi3GdVbb616l0y4NiaAorb2LWQtuQLJzLjUSvxe21PmHJESTjGj o7slzf9q3RnrFs6gubBIYlX7pm97Ar3lPSf37CHYBpi8hn488xUT0LPcdjnuFWtLO0Ao C9Y8azxZKiuj1ROJGMGWq2bAwaBl6qJ3ogofg= Original-Received: by 10.114.39.20 with SMTP id m20mr1496494wam.205.1281694886615; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 03:21:26 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.3] (c-67-180-85-8.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.180.85.8]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d35sm4265417waa.21.2010.08.13.03.21.25 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 13 Aug 2010 03:21:25 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100711 Thunderbird/3.0.6 In-Reply-To: <0LflI2-1PHZPs2uvS-00oe0Z@mx.perfora.net> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:22:20 -0400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:128600 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman wrote: > We have only been talking about having it as an option. (If that > option should make it default is another question.) > This is already implemented in my patched version of Emacs. (The > default there is still using Alt as Emacs META since I did not want to > confuse new users.) hi all, i just like to voice support for the ability to set Win key as Meta as a option, and the ability to have Windows system wide keyboard access to menu mechanism also work while in emacs. I know Lennart has put huge amount of work to code this, and i feel his emacs distribution, and Carbon Emacs and Aquamacs Emacs has helped emacs spread by a lot outside of GNU/Linux. I've been using them for the past 6 years, am really indebted to them (and FSF too). Xah