Re: Gnus v5.6.24 is released

[Robert Bihlmeyer <e9426626@stud2.tuwien.ac.at>]

Hi,

>>>>> On 15 Jul 1998 21:42:12 -0400
>>>>> Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> said:

 Rat> Alan Shutko writes:

 >> Sure Alt generates something. It generates a keycode.

 Rat> It does not, in and of itself, generate anything that Emacs,
 Rat> thus Gnus, recognizes.

That's only the default setup. Of course Alt generates a keycode, that 
gets from the keyboard to the cpu to the os to X. If you tell X to map 
this keycode to something other than a modifier, it produces this
keysym with no problem. I just used xmodmap to make Alt generate an "r".

 >> Right, but we were talking about X.

 Rat> No, we were discussing a key binding that needs to work in X and
 Rat> in ttys, and whether or not that binding is "safe". And the
 Rat> point I think I (and others) have made is that it is not "safe".

We're discussing whether to support stupid wms that steal bindings
from programs. Remember that ICCCM requests wms to offer users a way
to send ANY key-combo to applications.

	Robbe

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