From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Switch Meta and Alt modifiers Date: 24 Feb 2002 18:49:45 +0000 Message-ID: References: <200202220432.g1M4WTQ13957@aztec.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: quimby2.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1014577013 31946 195.204.10.66 (24 Feb 2002 18:56:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Feb 2002 18:56:53 GMT Cc: rms@gnu.org, eliz@is.elta.co.il, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby2.netfonds.no with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16f3pN-0008JA-00 for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 19:56:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16f3mo-0007L3-00; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 13:54:14 -0500 Original-Received: from protactinium.btinternet.com ([194.73.73.176]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16f3kb-0007E0-00; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 13:51:57 -0500 Original-Received: from host213-123-56-164.in-addr.btopenworld.com ([213.123.56.164] helo=nyaumo.btinternet.com) by protactinium.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #8) id 16f3kP-0006o6-00; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 18:51:45 +0000 Original-Received: from nyaumo.btinternet.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nyaumo.btinternet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id SAA04876; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 18:49:46 GMT Original-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.50 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: quimby.gnus.org gmane.emacs.devel:1489 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:1489 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes: > I'm not sure but I think that this does not encompass all of the > Windows functionality. Probably not, but it would be nice if the functionality that it does encompass could be the same. > So the closest we could get with the platform-independent mechanism > is to choose some modifier for the key and to have a > boolean variable which chooses whether is seen as that > modifier or as a normal key. >=20 > But this looses functionality. I don't see which functionality has been lost. The only difference seems to be that we would have two variables to control it instead of one variable with an overloaded meaning. --=20 Jason Rumney _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel