Re: Physical keyboard events

[Po Lu]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
>> Cc: cpardo@imayhem.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 08:25:53 +0800
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> > I already said that we could have both what you want and what Cecilio
>> > considers TRT.  Why do you keep arguing for your concept as the only
>> > one?
>> 
>> Because the former is fatally hamstrung for many users, from whom we
>> will undoubtedly receive a spate of issues reporting that their modifier
>> keys are not producing activation events.
>
> I understand what you are saying, but Cecilio and myself clearly
> disagree, so why not have both abilities in Emacs (assuming that it is
> possible and practical)?

That would be redundant, since there is no key binding inexpressible
with the events I propose that can be expressed with events generated
from keysyms.  For most users, it will be just a simple matter of
writing `meta-left' or `meta-right' rather than `alt-right', and so
forth.