From: Maciek Pasternacki <maciekp@japhy.fnord.org>
Subject: Re: emacs for everything?
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 14:10:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hdnfbdek.fsf@lizard.king> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87d5y3994r.fsf@informatik.uni-freiburg.de
On Prickle-Prickle, The Aftermath 37, 3170 YOLD, Lee Sau Dan wrote:
> Maciek> X11 binds Windows keys as Super modifier,
>
> Only for recent versions of XFree86. With previous versions, I needed
> to modify the config files to do that. And there isn't too much
> well-formed documentations for configuring the sophisticated 'xkb'
> system.
Well, `xkb' *is* poorly documented. That's why I still use .Xmodmap
to switch parenthesis to Lisp-machine-like layout (`(' is where `['
used to be, `[' is where `{' used to be, `{' is where `(' used to be
-- it is convenient in both programming (maybe if I programmed much in
some curly-braces-laden language (now I do mostly Python), I'd think
about other place for {}) and writing normal text). .Xmodmap can also
give symbols to so-called multimedial-keys (play/pause, mute, e-mail,
WWW, etc.) -- I own a keyboard with these since maybe two weeks so
I haven't yet configured them all optimally but ejecting / injecting /
/ mounting CD-ROM with one keypress is surely convenient.
On older versions of XF86 one can also map windows keys to Super with
.Xmodmap. I don't remember how exactly to spell it but it shouldn't
take much googling.
I use XKB though to switch my Caps Lock and left Ctrl key (like Sun
keyboards have) -- this one I found in docs. ;) In Emacs it makes
*big* difference.
> And I also bind the otherwise useless "Pause" key on PC keyboards. ;)
Oh. It's really useless here! ;) I've grown up on DOS where
Ctrl+Break was one of more important combos -- it was used to force
program to stop (like Ctrl+C on Un*x console). When I run out of
`multimedia' keys I'll consider using it. :)
> Maciek> There is no universally-good configuration and I sculpted
> Maciek> my own from ground up; it took some time but now I feel
> Maciek> that I'm tha boss on my desktop and it behaves as I need.
>
> Yeah. It takes may be a few hours to read the FVWM man page and 1 or
> 2 more hours to try out the combinations that I like. But I've done
> this just twice or thrice (when I upgrade to a new version of fvwm and
> want to enjoy the new features) in the past 8 years. So, it's only
> maybe 20 hours in 8 years. The gained productivity of course pays
> that off.
And not only productivity -- configuring FVWM is just fun. Sawfish
was also fun and had some cool ideas but I couldn't stand its
everything-incompatible pseudo-Lisp (guy could just use Scheme if he
didn't like idea of using Common Lisp...) and at the time I used it it
was crashing frequently.
Maybe some plugin like fvwm-perl could be used to make FVWM talk
Common Lisp? Now THIS would be 1337! :)
--
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2004-11-16 5:41 emacs for everything? Joe Corneli
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2004-11-16 11:58 ` Fabian Braennstroem
2004-11-17 19:05 ` Floyd L. Davidson
2004-11-20 17:19 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-11-21 9:17 ` Janusz S. Bień
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2004-12-05 1:23 ` Zajcev Evgeny
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2004-11-20 18:18 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2004-11-20 21:40 ` Jay Belanger
2004-11-20 23:05 ` Alan Mackenzie
2004-11-21 9:29 ` Joe Corneli
2004-11-21 16:22 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2004-11-20 18:45 ` Floyd L. Davidson
2004-11-22 10:27 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-11-22 13:50 ` John Sullivan
2004-11-23 19:57 ` Maciek Pasternacki
2004-11-25 13:31 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-11-25 14:52 ` Maciek Pasternacki
2004-11-26 9:03 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-11-27 17:12 ` Maciek Pasternacki
2004-11-27 19:50 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-11-28 1:29 ` Maciek Pasternacki
2004-11-28 11:47 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-11-27 23:16 ` Daniel Pittman
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2004-11-25 15:19 ` Mike
2004-11-25 15:45 ` Maciek Pasternacki
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2004-11-24 4:13 ` Lee Sau Dan
2004-11-24 13:10 ` Maciek Pasternacki [this message]
2004-11-24 14:25 ` Leonardo Boiko
2004-11-24 20:33 ` Maciek Pasternacki
2004-11-24 20:49 ` Leonardo Boiko
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2004-12-01 17:49 ` Kevin Rodgers
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2004-11-25 3:16 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2004-11-25 13:16 ` Maciek Pasternacki
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2004-11-25 20:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-11-25 21:03 ` Maciek Pasternacki
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2004-11-27 22:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-11-28 1:31 ` Maciek Pasternacki
2004-11-25 17:06 ` Mathias Dahl
2004-11-28 14:29 ` Lee Sau Dan
2004-11-28 20:24 ` Joe Corneli
2004-11-30 10:00 ` ken
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2004-11-24 23:58 ` Floyd L. Davidson
2004-11-27 20:07 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-11-27 23:08 ` Micha Feigin
2004-11-28 1:33 ` Maciek Pasternacki
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2004-11-28 12:24 ` Floyd L. Davidson
2004-11-29 11:56 ` Kai Grossjohann
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2004-11-29 15:11 ` Floyd L. Davidson
2004-12-01 16:34 ` Kai Grossjohann
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2004-12-03 19:55 ` Floyd L. Davidson
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2004-11-27 22:00 ` Floyd L. Davidson
2004-11-28 18:36 ` David Hansen
2004-11-30 10:15 ` dual head video system (was Re: emacs for everything?) ken
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2004-11-30 13:01 ` dual head video system Floyd L. Davidson
2004-11-18 19:47 ` emacs for everything? Alan Mackenzie
2004-11-17 20:50 ` Alan Mackenzie
2004-11-17 22:46 ` Joe Corneli
[not found] ` <mailman.3419.1100732160.8225.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-11-18 19:42 ` Alan Mackenzie
2004-11-18 22:41 ` Joe Corneli
2004-11-17 3:24 ` Joe Corneli
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2004-12-06 2:44 ` David Combs
2004-12-06 4:11 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2004-12-27 1:59 ` David Combs
2004-12-30 7:04 ` Ravi Uday
2004-12-30 7:30 ` Neon Absentius
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2004-12-30 9:32 ` Ravi Uday
2004-12-30 9:53 ` Christian Plate
2004-12-30 9:59 ` Neon Absentius
2004-12-30 10:17 ` Peter Dyballa
2004-12-30 12:25 ` kurtz
2004-12-30 15:11 ` Floyd L. Davidson
2004-12-30 15:27 ` David Kastrup
2004-12-30 16:33 ` Floyd L. Davidson
2004-12-30 16:39 ` David Kastrup
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2004-11-15 1:29 Mike
2004-11-15 2:30 ` Henrik S. Hansen
2004-11-15 14:52 ` Per Abrahamsen
2004-11-15 16:32 ` Henrik S. Hansen
2004-11-16 10:09 ` William Xuuu
2004-11-16 13:20 ` Floyd L. Davidson
2004-11-16 20:07 ` Alan Mackenzie
2004-11-17 13:22 ` Oliver Scholz
2004-11-17 15:30 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-11-17 18:45 ` Floyd L. Davidson
2004-11-17 20:11 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-11-17 22:07 ` Henrik S. Hansen
2004-11-18 18:51 ` Alan Mackenzie
2004-11-18 22:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-11-19 0:48 ` Floyd L. Davidson
2004-11-19 19:41 ` Alan Mackenzie
2004-11-19 19:00 ` Cristian Gutierrez
2004-11-19 20:29 ` Leonardo Boiko
2004-11-26 4:51 ` William Xuuu
2004-11-23 12:27 ` Alex Polite
2004-12-06 2:39 ` David Combs
2004-11-15 2:51 ` V. L. Simpson
2004-11-15 3:03 ` David Hansen
2004-11-15 3:17 ` Galen Boyer
2004-11-15 7:06 ` Kin Cho
2004-11-16 1:57 ` Joe Fineman
2004-11-15 7:37 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
2004-11-15 12:56 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2004-11-15 13:09 ` respower
2004-11-15 14:37 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-11-17 13:27 ` Oliver Scholz
2004-11-16 11:00 ` Kai Grossjohann
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2004-11-16 15:41 ` Mathias Dahl
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