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Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages
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Ulrich Mueller |
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Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages |
Date: |
Tue, 09 Feb 2021 18:59:40 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1.91 (gnu/linux) |
>>>>> On Tue, 09 Feb 2021, Gregory Heytings wrote:
>>> How about C-\ or C-^? Historically these were used as substitutes
>>> for C-s and C-q when editing via serial lines (and there's still a
>>> function enable-flow-control that activates it). Certainly that's
>>> no longer a frequent use case?
>>
>> C-\ is used to set the input method. But we could move that
>> functionality to C-^, and then give up C-\ to third party packages.
> Except that \ is hard to type on most keyboards: C and \ are the two
> most distant keys on the most widespread keyboard layout (QWERTY), and
> on other keyboards \ requires pressing Shift or AltGr. Not exactly an
> appealing prefix.
The same could be said for C-o or M-o. And if you care about non-QWERTY
layouts, C-z on a German QWERTZ keyboard isn't much better.
(Also I wonder, aren't Shift, Ctrl, and Alt keys meant to be used
crosswise, i.e., left key for the right half of the keyboard, and vice
versa? For example, how do you type C-b or C-t?)
Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Ulrich Mueller, 2021/02/08
- Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Gregory Heytings, 2021/02/08
- Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Ulrich Mueller, 2021/02/08
- Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Gregory Heytings, 2021/02/08
- Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Sean Whitton, 2021/02/09
- Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Gregory Heytings, 2021/02/09
- Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages,
Ulrich Mueller <=
- Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Gregory Heytings, 2021/02/09
- Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Thibaut Verron, 2021/02/09
- Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Gregory Heytings, 2021/02/09
- Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Thibaut Verron, 2021/02/09
- Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Gregory Heytings, 2021/02/09
Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Stefan Monnier, 2021/02/09
Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Gregory Heytings, 2021/02/09
Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Sean Whitton, 2021/02/09
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