From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Key bindings proposal Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:01:59 +0800 Message-ID: <4C656C77.1060003@gnu.org> References: <19534.1494.627000.357123@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <19546.30901.687000.971249@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <19546.47167.15000.439215@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <87fwys7qao.fsf@telefonica.net> <87hbj8qvd9.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87iq3k68ye.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <874of466rj.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87pqxsbrie.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87k4nv7t72.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <19556.28233.750000.798692@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <87aaoqjzge.fsf@stupidchicken.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 1281715481 25976 80.91.229.12 (13 Aug 2010 16:04:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:04:41 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 13 18:04:38 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 1OjwkG-0006jz-6R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:04:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60317 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OjwkE-0001yw-Ku for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:04:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44930 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ojwi9-000137-T4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:02:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ojwi7-0008O4-RK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:02:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pz0-f41.google.com ([209.85.210.41]:60050) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ojwi7-0008Nv-LB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:02:23 -0400 Original-Received: by pzk33 with SMTP id 33so1516977pzk.0 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:02:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=HMXJ4Npzc7VuhIBW7jOzWXZ0p7VLjl5oXg5jAXSJ8WE=; b=mi4dovPJZS/3HDZ6ZYLtuyc9x5jH84vRL5mH3bgxSffaG09L/iA2XGYAkElDv4Kt9Y XmF8F4OmuzuV56BkqXgMtS/XDbmDLuQ7BA0ChAN0w0L9wpPSaH5j39uzSesP2DH0e2Df J5y56CB8O0S+AzTvP8Z+dAUQsQ/K2NiRif1r4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=kp/b3LeuHMQbBK1Bb9eh7/IH++yjWBORoBJ32PL8bfVNTlO7yPexNXzVxqCxktG/33 a0+lSEtv7+Ms2j8jJR4psMX5fAMEHfE8pdwcnGf8XIucqI8DuRwMVsC1zWYOgMINVImX gYGPQKrFnoi/p5HejFN1/wGwqYz1qJ41vIpVI= Original-Received: by 10.114.111.9 with SMTP id j9mr1987228wac.2.1281715342229; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:02:22 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.249.102] ([202.87.221.130]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d35sm4840940waa.9.2010.08.13.09.02.18 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:02:20 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 In-Reply-To: <87aaoqjzge.fsf@stupidchicken.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:128615 Archived-At: On 13/8/2010 11:37 PM, Chong Yidong wrote: > The problem is that Lennart's proposed solution seems to be the wrong > one. If you want to rebind the Windows key to a modifier key, the > conceptually correct way to do it should be via a separate program, > separate from Emacs. That is exactly how it is done on GNU/Linux (where > conventions like Alt-TAB are commonly respected, nowadays). > > If there is any technical reason why this cannot be done on Windows, I > have not yet seen anyone argue it. Such a program might theoretically be possible, but as far as I know it does not exist.