Re: New key binding syntax

[Richard Stallman]

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  > What wasn’t that ever normalized/documented? it always seemed to be that 
  > “kbd” was the standard way of specifying keystrokes… was it just informal?

It was a convenient way of specifying key sequences -- never more than that.

  > I always wondered: if one day emacs was to allow to gracefully support 
  > key-chords [0] (that is, using any key other as a “modifier”, so that you 
  > could press a and b at the same time and it would be a special keystrokes, 
  > which makes expressivity of keystrokes increase factorially with length 
  > instead of exponentially), at least in certain configurations.

That sounds nice, but using non-modifier keys as modifiers has an
inherent problem: those keys are supposed to do rollover.
If you press a, and while holding it down, press b, that is supposed
to mean a followed by b.

To make that count as "b modified by a", we would need to change how
the keyboard handles the a key.


  > That feature (actually, dirty hack, for now, but the author consider emacs 
  > to be misdesigned apparently, according implementation notes) is even 
  > advertised on emacs’ webpage through the emacsrock serie [1]

Sorry, I can't make sense of that.  What is "emacsrock"?  What does
"[1]" refer to?  When you say "on Emacs' webpage", what exact URL do
you mean?


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