Re: Problem with Super key
2007/3/13, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
Jason Spiro writes:
> These are very useful functions, but their key bindings are
> difficult for KDE and Gnome users to press.
Are they more difficult for KDE/GNOME users than anybody else?
KDE and GNOME both bind M-TAB to something else (an application
switcher) so the keystroke doesn't get through to Emacs.
Control-Alt-<backspace> is awkward for all X Window System users. It
is the hotkey for suddenly killing any running X server without
providing any warning dialog. That's confusingly similar to
C-M-<backspace>. Plus, on many machines, the same physical key
produces both Alt and Meta.
> Perhaps it'd be a worthwhile idea to create additional
bindings
> that do these things?
Maybe, but there's not much one can say until you specify keys.
Can anyone suggest some bindings? I don't know the Emacs keymap so
well. Hopeless ideas: Maybe we can use something with TAB in it
instead of M-TAB? How about Shift-Tab? And for backward-kill-sexp,
how about Shift-<backspace>? (But maybe those wouldn't work when
running in console mode.)
Anyway, personally, I use neither KDE nor GNOME, and so cannot
write,
review, or test patches without inordinate amounts of pain.
Volunteers?
Time permitting, I will test any patches that address this issue on my
Ubuntu 6.10 + Gnome PC.
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