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Re: Modifier Keys and the Archaic Meta Key, term keyboard becoming archa
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Jean Louis |
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Re: Modifier Keys and the Archaic Meta Key, term keyboard becoming archaic soon |
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Mon, 26 Oct 2020 17:37:42 +0300 |
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Mutt/+ (1036f0e) (2020-10-18) |
- keyboard
For the reason that there are so many computers today
without keyboards, it would be very late to change M-x to
something else, as keyboards will soon disappear
as well. All the work of changing the M-x terminology will
be in vain.
* Overview of noun keyboard
The noun keyboard has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (2) keyboard -- (device consisting of a set of keys on
a piano or organ or typewriter or typesetting machine or
computer or the like)
15. key -- (a lever (as in a keyboard) that actuates a
mechanism when depressed)
On billions of computers today like tables and phones
there is no mechanism and there is no lever on so many
mobile devices that use virtual "keyboards". Same trend is
expected to come to what is called "desktop" computers
(desktop may be obsolete as well).
Those who report bugs for Emacs while using mobile devices
such as tablets and phones should be seriously warned not
to use the obsolete term "keyboard".
Neither the Emacs manual nor Emacs was ever made to
support "virtual keyboards".
Users of mobile devices should be disadvised to send Emacs
complaints while using the incorrect and obsolete term
"keyboard" as that increases chances of blame that Emacs
key bindings cause repetitive strain injureis. Finally,
there are no key bindings on such devices simply because
they do not have keys.
Those getting repetitive strain injuries on a "virtual
keyboard" shall be diagnosed having virtual repetitive
strain injury.
It will be questionable if that will be justification for
a sick pay.
Re: Modifier Keys and the Archaic Meta Key, Jean Louis, 2020/10/25
Re: Modifier Keys and the Archaic Meta Key, Vladimir Sedach, 2020/10/25