Re: Physical keyboard events

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 13:28:20 +0700
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> On Wed, 30 Oct 2024 at 10:22, Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Not *for key with modifiers*, but during lookup in keymaps. There are
> > enough keybindings that include keys without modifiers.
> 
> I’m going to posit the hypothesis that the *only* command for which it
> makes sense to use the keysym of the current layout is
> ‘self-insert-command’.
> 
> Everything else wants the keysym of “the” Latin-based layout if there
> is one and only one; the keycode if there is none; and some heuristic
> tiebreaker for the case where the user has more than one Latin-based
> layout configured.

How do you suggest to arrange for a low-level keyboard interface to
know which kind of Emacs command attempted to read the keyboard?

Moreover, what about type-ahead?  When Emacs is busy, the user can
type quite a lot of commands, and the keyboard processing cannot know
at that point which Emacs commands will actually read those queued
keys.

IOW, I don't understand how to use your hypothesis, even if it is
true, in practice.