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across terminals
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PPAATT |
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across terminals |
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Wed, 24 Apr 2002 09:01:57 EDT |
> Date: 4/20/02 11:28:15 AM MDT
> From: address@hidden (Richard Stallman)
...
> Since such characters are not available
> on all terminals, ...
> People won't want to use these keys
> in major modes or minor modes
> meant for general use.
I remain mystified by this concise statement,
but I've thought up a new way to interpret it ...
A quick glance thru:
http://www.google.com/search?q=iso+646+vs+ascii
in particular:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars.html#646
http://pdc.ro.nu/teletext.html
suggests that keyboards designed by ISO 646 folk
might have keys labelled with the "invariant set" of
printable US Ascii minus the thirteen chars
# $ @ [ \ ] ^ _ ` { | } ~
(i.e. x 23 24 40 5B 5C 5D 5E 5F 60 7B 7C 7D 7E).
So across Europe & relations maybe we face
"not available on all terminals" issues
in the default Emacs keymap with the "C-c letter"
concept we have been elucidating in our thread
titled "bindings reserved for users" but then also with:
set-mark-command is on C-@, C-SPC
key ESC is on C-[
abort-recursive-edit is on C-]
toggle-input-method is on C-\
undo C-_, C-/
ispell-word M-$
mark-word is on M-@
delete-horizontal-space is on M-\
delete-indentation is on M-^
tmm-menubar is on M-`
backward-paragraph is on C-up, M-{
shell-command-on-region is on M-|
forward-paragraph is on C-down, M-}
not-modified is on M-~
Fun to see how many of these we have
(and have not) already bound to alternate
key sequences, not to mention mouse actions etc.
I remember in particular that C-h t help-with-tutorial
bemoans the difficulty of finding locally how to undo,
hence we have C-x u advertised-undo (also known as
the undo that C-h w undo does Not advertise).
Pat LaVarre
- across terminals,
PPAATT <=
- Re: across terminals, Richard Stallman, 2002/04/25
- Re: across terminals, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/04/25
- Localization: keyboards and messages (Re: across terminals), Karl Eichwalder, 2002/04/25
- Re: Localization: keyboards and messages (Re: across terminals), Pavel JanÃk, 2002/04/25
- Re: Localization: keyboards and messages (Re: across terminals), Stephen J. Turnbull, 2002/04/26
- Re: Localization: keyboards and messages (Re: across terminals), Richard Stallman, 2002/04/26
- Re: Localization: keyboards and messages (Re: across terminals), Karl Eichwalder, 2002/04/26
- Re: Localization: keyboards and messages (Re: across terminals), Eli Zaretskii, 2002/04/28