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Re: Default Emacs keybindings
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Robert J. Chassell |
Subject: |
Re: Default Emacs keybindings |
Date: |
Thu, 6 May 2004 12:41:34 +0000 (UTC) |
You are good at writing clear documentation. With the information
that was posted, can you write clear documentation for this?
No, there is not enough info for me. I do not understand keybindings.
I do not know how to construct key mapping files that work for people
using various GNU systems.
For example, I do not know how to read the full key information
provided by xev or xkeycaps or showkeys, even though I have read the
man pages numerous times.
I grasp enough so that with trial and error, I was able, a long time
ago, to figure out what to do and write notes.
That is all. I do not know what to read that is at the right level
for me and which will tell me what I need to learn.
On the one hand, I've seen documentation that presumes I know or
remember much more than I do. I do not understand what it says. On
the other hand, I'v seen documentation that presumes I know nothing.
This tells me too little.
Documentation that says too little tends to say things like, "run
`install-keymap emacs2'". That is fine if that works. But does not
tell what to do when it fails.
Fortunately, I know that when `install-keymap' fails, I should run
`loadkeys /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/emacs2.kmap.gz'
Unfortunately, but I do not know what to do when that command fails.
What do I do with that command to get a Euro symbol both in an xterm
and in an instance of Emacs -- a symbol that will be readable on a Web
page as well as in Emacs, or that will be readable in an email message
from me if they use some strange non-Emacs email reader?
I have a note to myself for inserting a Euro symbol into an Emacs
buffer using "rfc1345" but I have no idea whether that is a good
method or not. My note also says
;; Note that there exists
;; ISO 2022 based 8-bit encoding for Latin-5 (MIME:ISO-8859-9).
;; but I do not know how to insert a Euro symbol with it.
Since the Euro symbol is not important to me, that is as far as I have
gone. Obviously, the Euro symbol is important to many other people.
What should I read to learn about keybindings, including new features
like the Euro symbol? I don't know.
Worse, as I said, I do not know how to construct key mapping files
that work for people using various GNU systems: some time ago, I
tested the methods I use on the three different keyboards that I use,
and that is all. (All three systems use a Linux kernel.)
The goal is to suggest one action or several actions that are likely
to work with all GNU systems. (I have not the foggiest knowledge
about non-GNU systems, nor much interest.)
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- Re: Default Emacs keybindings, (continued)
- Re: Default Emacs keybindings, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/05/04
- Re: Default Emacs keybindings, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/05/05
- Re: Default Emacs keybindings, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/05/05
- Re: Default Emacs keybindings, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2004/05/05
- Re: Default Emacs keybindings, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/05/05
- Re: Default Emacs keybindings, Richard Stallman, 2004/05/04
- Re: Default Emacs keybindings, Robert J. Chassell, 2004/05/04
- Re: Default Emacs keybindings, Richard Stallman, 2004/05/05
- Re: Default Emacs keybindings,
Robert J. Chassell <=
- Re: Default Emacs keybindings, Andreas Schwab, 2004/05/06
- Re: Default Emacs keybindings, Robert J. Chassell, 2004/05/06
- Re: Default Emacs keybindings, Andreas Schwab, 2004/05/06
- Re: Default Emacs keybindings, Richard Stallman, 2004/05/07
- Re: Default Emacs keybindings, Robert J. Chassell, 2004/05/09
- Re: Default Emacs keybindings, Robert J. Chassell, 2004/05/04
- Re: Default Emacs keybindings, Richard Stallman, 2004/05/03
- Re: Default Emacs keybindings, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2004/05/03
Re: Default Emacs keybindings, Lars Hansen, 2004/05/03