From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Add-on USB custom keypads Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 00:39:20 +0200 Message-ID: <86r3bw7o87.fsf@student.uu.se> References: <20160616200035.GB3431@mail.akwebsoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1466116801 13035 80.91.229.3 (16 Jun 2016 22:40:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 22:40:01 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 17 00:40:01 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bDfx8-0006EF-Ty for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jun 2016 00:39:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52418 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bDfx8-0000ZX-8x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:39:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51934) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bDfwk-0000ZH-Ek for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:39:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bDfwf-0005ZZ-EG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:39:33 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:39062) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bDfwf-0005Z7-79 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:39:29 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bDfwd-0005q2-1s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jun 2016 00:39:27 +0200 Original-Received: from c-9ce1e655.08-680-7570702.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se ([85.230.225.156]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2016 00:39:26 +0200 Original-Received: from embe8573 by c-9ce1e655.08-680-7570702.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2016 00:39:26 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-9ce1e655.08-680-7570702.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:1Rln9Tmg1TBl+gewsExIr7KWcLk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:110467 Archived-At: Tom Browder writes: > The reason I want an add-on keypad is because > heavy use of Perl 6 requires unicode utf8 and > I want easy access to oft-used symbols. There is already C-x 8 RET commercial at RET or, if you need even easier access you can assign shortcuts to the most-often used symbols: (global-set-key "\C-ca" (lambda () (interactive) (insert "@"))) There are other ways to do that, including on the level below Emacs where the keyboard is rewired in different ways depending on the technology where Emacs is executed... Because, it is not easier to have an add-on keypad! That way you have to move you hands from typing position, and then back, and you eyes have to drop from the text you are typing, and then reset. Not good... -- underground experts united .... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 Emacs Gnus Blogomatic ......... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/blogomatic - so far: 48 Blogomatic articles -