From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: William Gardella Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs keyboard Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 03:27:27 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87d2yee4r4.fsf@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1355389566 8678 80.91.229.3 (13 Dec 2012 09:06:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 09:06:06 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 13 10:06:18 2012 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 1Tj4jN-0006O4-Pq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Dec 2012 10:05:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38902 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tj4jA-00072u-U3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Dec 2012 04:05:12 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: sypdE5dyfWYz8sfAApD9Aw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:NEcvS7zDh2fkIk9cK8Gb84LicHk= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:195845 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:88163 Archived-At: "B. T. Raven" 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/)