From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#43830: keyboard layout handling incompatible with rest of the OS Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2020 23:34:17 +0300 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <87imbn2iwm.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <87h7r78a5y.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15504"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: 43830@debbugs.gnu.org To: Paul Pogonyshev Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 06 22:38:11 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kPtis-0003vq-GK for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 06 Oct 2020 22:38:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58016 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kPtir-0000y5-Bp for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 06 Oct 2020 16:38:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52910) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kPtik-0000xq-9Z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Oct 2020 16:38:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:42715) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kPtik-0003jf-01 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Oct 2020 16:38:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kPtij-00010j-Sd for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Oct 2020 16:38:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Juri Linkov Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2020 20:38:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 43830 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 43830-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B43830.16020166433824 (code B ref 43830); Tue, 06 Oct 2020 20:38:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 43830) by debbugs.gnu.org; 6 Oct 2020 20:37:23 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54258 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kPti6-0000zc-SX for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 06 Oct 2020 16:37:23 -0400 Original-Received: from relay9-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.199]:48225) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kPti3-0000zM-WD for 43830@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 06 Oct 2020 16:37:21 -0400 X-Originating-IP: 91.129.102.160 Original-Received: from mail.gandi.net (m91-129-102-160.cust.tele2.ee [91.129.102.160]) (Authenticated sender: juri@linkov.net) by relay9-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C00BDFF803; Tue, 6 Oct 2020 20:37:12 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: (Paul Pogonyshev's message of "Tue, 6 Oct 2020 20:59:31 +0200") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:189941 Archived-At: >> You can use the package https://github.com/a13/reverse-im.el > > Mostly works fine, but e.g. C-. in Russian doesn't work as C-/ (undo) for > me > (in Russian layout '.' is on the same key as '/' in English). When your X xkb layout has some differences from an Emacs input method, you need to adjust these mismatched keys, but this is not a big problem. > Pretty sure the correct way would be for Emacs to support this natively, > not hack from Elisp side, which has no information about physical keys, > only typed characters. Hack or not, but it works fine for many users (the git repo has 57 stars).