From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uday S Reddy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Key bindings proposal Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:32:23 +0100 Message-ID: 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281115967 17504 80.91.229.12 (6 Aug 2010 17:32:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 17:32:47 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 06 19:32:45 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 1OhQmi-00076s-Of for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:32:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51893 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OhQmi-00014c-Am for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:32:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34452 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OhQmb-00014N-4S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:32:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhQma-0007Rl-1L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:32:36 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:58465) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhQmZ-0007Rd-RL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:32:35 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhQmW-0006zh-6r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:32:32 +0200 Original-Received: from acws-0068.cs.bham.ac.uk ([147.188.194.56]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:32:32 +0200 Original-Received: from u.s.reddy by acws-0068.cs.bham.ac.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:32:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: acws-0068.cs.bham.ac.uk User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) In-Reply-To: <87hbj8qvd9.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:128397 Archived-At: Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > > Like Juanma, I also don't know why it is essential to use the Windows > > > key as meta. > > > > +1. But maybe I'm missing something. > > It's not essential, but I really appreciate having Meta on the outside > (where my little finger can press it). It's also nice in X because of > the number of window managers that willy-nilly steal Alt for their own > use. I agree. After having thought about for a day, I realize that it is a perfectly logical thing to map Windows keys to Meta. It is wasted keyboard real estate otherwise. Juanma, can this go on the TODO list? Cheers, Uday