From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Key bindings proposal Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:09:52 -0400 Message-ID: <874of466rj.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <19534.1494.627000.357123@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <19537.40472.267000.563053@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <176EDAD3B9E54E39870FA3F84A5DDF3C@us.oracle.com> <19542.56658.583000.394397@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <19544.1015.468000.280770@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> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281309006 24943 80.91.229.12 (8 Aug 2010 23:10:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 23:10:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Uday S Reddy , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 09 01:10:05 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 1OiF0G-0008C0-RN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 01:10:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54490 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OiF0G-00062r-4n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:10:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60393 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OiF0A-00061k-AY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:09:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiF09-0005Ey-BX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:09:58 -0400 Original-Received: from pantheon-po41.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.98]:33349) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiF09-0005Et-7T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:09:57 -0400 Original-Received: from furry (173-9-75-145-NewEngland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.9.75.145]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po41.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id o78N9qIY012528 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 8 Aug 2010 19:09:53 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D2BBDC013; Sun, 8 Aug 2010 19:09:52 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Lennart Borgman's message of "Mon, 9 Aug 2010 00:29:55 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:128439 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman writes: > I think the Alt key is far more important. Why is it any more important than on any other platform? Practically no one uses a keyboard with separate Alt and Meta keys anymore, so it makes sense to translate the alt key to a Meta event, as we do on GNU/Linux.