Re: Physical keyboard events

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: cpardo@imayhem.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 22:36:57 +0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> >> Cc: cpardo@imayhem.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >> Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 08:25:53 +0800
> >> 
> >> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> >> 
> >> > I already said that we could have both what you want and what Cecilio
> >> > considers TRT.  Why do you keep arguing for your concept as the only
> >> > one?
> >> 
> >> Because the former is fatally hamstrung for many users, from whom we
> >> will undoubtedly receive a spate of issues reporting that their modifier
> >> keys are not producing activation events.
> >
> > I understand what you are saying, but Cecilio and myself clearly
> > disagree, so why not have both abilities in Emacs (assuming that it is
> > possible and practical)?
> 
> That would be redundant, since there is no key binding inexpressible
> with the events I propose that can be expressed with events generated
> from keysyms.

It isn't redundant, since it reports different events from the same
keys.