From: Francis Belliveau <f.belliveau@comcast.net>
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Modifier Keys and the Archaic Meta Key
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2020 15:57:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <64F19108-F8EA-4D43-ADA2-F002B37C60FE@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-a9b142ec-471d-49ec-9d2b-2eb3f2e13646-1603630193069@3c-app-mailcom-bs14>
> On Oct 25, 2020, at 08:49, Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com> wrote:
>
>
> Not instantly, that is agreed. But we can start with adding
> the Key-Mnemonics 'A' and 'P'. We can call the key with Priority
> 2, the Alternate Key 'A'.
>
> So nomenclature will be, by priority and Mnemonics:
>
> Control (C), Alternate (A,M), Hyper(H), Shift(S), Super(P,s).
It seems that I have been left in the dark somewhere along the line. I do not understand the concept of "priorities" in this context.
I have been using Emacs since the 1980's.
As I see it there are three modifier keys: Shift,Control and what Emacs calls Meta. In general, Shift does not have meaning since it only changes the character that the other modifiers apply to (C-a versus C-A or C-, versus C-<).
I have always understood that what the Emacs documentation referred to as "the Meta Key" as the other modifier key used by the current OS or setup.
As I understand things the modifier keys apply, period. C-M-a has no relationship to either C-a or M-a so where does priority come into play here?
Fran
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-25 19:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-25 10:05 Modifier Keys and the Archaic Meta Key Christopher Dimech
2020-10-25 11:35 ` Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-25 12:49 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-10-25 19:57 ` Francis Belliveau [this message]
2020-10-25 21:07 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-10-26 14:37 ` Modifier Keys and the Archaic Meta Key, term keyboard becoming archaic soon Jean Louis
2020-10-26 16:14 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-10-25 12:45 ` Modifier Keys and the Archaic Meta Key Jean Louis
2020-10-25 13:46 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-10-25 20:12 ` Francis Belliveau
2020-10-25 21:30 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-08 22:15 ` pillule
2020-11-14 21:51 ` pillule
2020-10-25 20:40 ` Vladimir Sedach
2020-10-25 21:32 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-10-25 21:41 ` Drew Adams
2020-10-25 21:53 ` Christopher Dimech
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