From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: more keys in a Linux VT (was: alt-tab? really? you're joking...)
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 21:24:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871tmggeep.fsf_-_@debian.uxu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.18727.1422352295.1147.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:
>>> To me <C-M-i> isn't more difficult to type (in a
>>> way, it is easier/better as the left index finger
>>> can remain at <f>)
>
> As many keys, that depends on your keyboard layout.
> I use a German variant of the Dvorak layout, and
> then `C-M-i' basically means pressing three keys
> with the left hand.
Yeah, that sucks. I used the Swedish layout many years
ago but it really sucks with programming because not
the least the Swedish chars å, ä and ö are obstructing
the much needed programming delimiters, which must be
inserted with combinations: for example, the semicolon
doesn't have a designated key. I use the compose key
for å, ä and ö, which I only need in the occasional
mail. With computers, I'm Anglo-American body and soul
by now...
>> Without the configuration, <M-tab> translates to
>> <C-M-i> in the Linux VTs. Those keys are both very
>> good, so why have them do the same thing? It is a
>> waste.
>
> Because those keys are the same on older terminals.
>
> With an ordinary ASCII terminal, there is no way
> to distinguish between <TAB> and ‘C-i’
OK, then the Linux VT is neither old nor ordinary
ASCII, because that is possible with the method I just
showed.
ASCII is 7 or 8 bits. Though I can't provide a
reference, my gut feeling is the Linux VT is *9 bits*.
So technically, that reference might be correct, but
in this day and age it is confusing nonetheless.
I have, as we speak, in a Linux VT with no tmux/screen
or anything on top, the following keys and commands
available with no fuss to it:
<TAB> as next-header
<C-i> as new-message
C-M-i as scroll-up-pane
<M-tab> as switch-buffer [those are all custom functions]
Here is how to do it:
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/conf/remap.inc
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/conf/emacs-init/console-keys.el
> So you may define different commands for `C-M-i' and
> <M-tab> but then on a Linux VT, the `C-M-i' binding
> will be executed for both pressing `C-M-i' and for
> "Meta+TAB".
You may define different keys as well in a Linux VT,
then the commands won't collide.
--
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2015-01-23 3:50 alt-tab? really? you're joking Hikaru Ichijyo
2015-01-23 4:17 ` Charles Philip Chan
2015-01-23 5:34 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-01-23 14:38 ` Hikaru Ichijyo
2015-01-23 14:50 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-01-23 22:20 ` Charles Philip Chan
2015-01-23 10:26 ` Tassilo Horn
[not found] ` <mailman.18427.1422008816.1147.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2015-01-23 14:47 ` Hikaru Ichijyo
2015-01-26 8:12 ` Tassilo Horn
[not found] ` <mailman.18637.1422259999.1147.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2015-01-26 21:18 ` incal
2015-01-26 21:34 ` incal
2015-01-27 9:51 ` Tassilo Horn
[not found] ` <mailman.18727.1422352295.1147.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2015-01-27 20:24 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2015-01-24 0:12 ` incal
2015-01-24 4:40 ` Hikaru Ichijyo
2015-01-24 10:34 ` incal
2015-01-24 12:00 ` Adam Sjøgren
[not found] ` <mailman.18502.1422100844.1147.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2015-01-24 23:40 ` Hikaru Ichijyo
2015-01-25 2:07 ` Winston
2015-01-25 2:55 ` Hikaru Ichijyo
2015-01-25 8:38 ` Glyn Millington
2015-01-25 8:40 ` Glyn Millington
2015-01-25 8:59 ` Immediate expiration Damien Wyart
2015-01-25 20:32 ` Hikaru Ichijyo
2015-01-25 12:41 ` alt-tab? really? you're joking incal
2015-01-25 13:00 ` new subject (was: alt-tab? really? you're joking...) Peter Münster
[not found] ` <mailman.18547.1422190826.1147.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2015-01-25 13:37 ` incal
2015-01-25 13:42 ` incal
2015-01-25 19:58 ` new subject Peter Münster
2015-01-25 20:36 ` Clemens Schüller
[not found] ` <mailman.18582.1422218214.1147.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2015-01-25 20:53 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-01-26 8:04 ` Peter Münster
[not found] ` <mailman.18636.1422259506.1147.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2015-01-26 19:35 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.18578.1422215928.1147.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2015-01-25 20:51 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-01-25 22:19 ` alt-tab? really? you're joking Adam Sjøgren
2015-01-26 8:15 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-01-26 10:12 ` Adam Sjøgren
[not found] ` <mailman.18642.1422267150.1147.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2015-01-26 19:48 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-01-27 0:15 ` Hikaru Ichijyo
2015-01-27 1:21 ` spam (was: alt-tab? really? you're joking...) incal
2015-01-27 2:51 ` spam Hikaru Ichijyo
2015-01-27 3:11 ` spam incal
2015-01-25 12:32 ` alt-tab? really? you're joking incal
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