From: William Gardella <gardellawg@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs keyboard
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 03:27:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2yee4r4.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: kabgqh01v59@news6.newsguy.com
"B. T. Raven" <btraven@nihilo.net> writes:
> Hey Emacsers:
>
> Does any of you know of a keyboard still in production that has
> dedicated keys for both alt and meta keys? (two of each, one right and
> one left). If such a thing were to exist could Emacs use all of the mod
> keys (shift, ctl, meta, super, hyper, alt)? The os could sense all of
> these depressed at once but it's pretty difficult to accomplish
> ergonomically. Four of these (two on each side) could be latched (made
> sticky in hardware) and then be unlatched by being pressed again or
> combined with an alpha key in a succeeding keychord. For example, after
> C-h k and then pressing a bunch of mod keys I get:
>
> C-H-M-S-s-a is undefined
>
> I think this is the limit on usb keyboards (6 key rollover). Would Emacs
> sense and allow binding to the A-C-H-M-S-s-a keychord if the hardware
> allowed it? (ps2).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ed
Yes, with one caveat: the Alt modifier in Emacs is usually used as a
so-called "dead key" for input of various accented characters etc.,
often with a meaning for both the shifted and unshifted version of the
key. So it'd probably map to C-H-M-s-[funky symbol]. :)
It'd be cool if you bound C-H-M-s-£ to something.
--
WGG
I use grml (http://grml.org/)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-13 8:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-13 3:07 Emacs keyboard B. T. Raven
2012-12-13 8:27 ` William Gardella [this message]
2012-12-13 16:47 ` J G Miller
2012-12-13 18:08 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.15263.1355422115.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-12-14 6:38 ` B. T. Raven
2013-01-05 0:33 ` David Combs
2013-01-05 1:02 ` Loic J. Duros
2013-01-05 9:05 ` James Freer
2013-01-06 14:43 ` ken
2013-01-06 21:28 ` James Freer
[not found] ` <mailman.16820.1357507710.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-01-06 22:02 ` Dan Espen
2013-01-06 22:25 ` James Freer
2013-01-06 3:51 ` Filipp Gunbin
2013-01-06 15:00 ` J. David Boyd
2013-01-24 22:53 ` James Freer
[not found] ` <mailman.16729.1357356945.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-01-24 21:51 ` David Combs
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