Re: [External] : New key binding syntax

[Yuri Khan]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2021 at 22:22, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> How do you work in Emacs with a keyboard that generates Cyrillic
> characters?  All the commands are in English, responses to prompts are
> also in English, etc.  Don't you switch the keyboard language to
> English anyway?

I do, when I need to type text in English. Shell commands count as
English text. Single-key bindings in Dired, Ctrl+letter and Alt+letter
sequences do not. In Gedit, the key Ctrl+S saves the document no
matter whether pressing the key S would produce the character s or the
character ы.

> IOW, it sounds like the path to the "ideal world" is a tad longer than
> just binding keys in Dired.

In Emacs, it is. For historical terminal-related reasons.