incal <embe8...@student.uu.se> 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. > 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. ,----[ (info "(emacs)Named ASCII Chars") ] | <TAB>, <RET>, <BS>, <LFD>, <ESC> and <DEL> started out as names for | certain ASCII control characters, used so often that they have special | keys of their own. For instance, <TAB> was another name for ‘C-i’. | Later, users found it convenient to distinguish in Emacs between these | keys and the “same” control characters typed with the <Ctrl> key. | Therefore, on most modern terminals, they are no longer the same: <TAB> | is different from ‘C-i’. | | Emacs can distinguish these two kinds of input if the keyboard does. | It treats the “special” keys as function keys named ‘tab’, ‘return’, | ‘backspace’, ‘linefeed’, ‘escape’, and ‘delete’. These function keys | translate automatically into the corresponding ASCII characters _if_ | they have no bindings of their own. As a result, neither users nor Lisp | programs need to pay attention to the distinction unless they care to. | | If you do not want to distinguish between (for example) <TAB> and | ‘C-i’, make just one binding, for the ASCII character <TAB> (octal code | 011). If you do want to distinguish, make one binding for this ASCII | character, and another for the “function key” ‘tab’. | | With an ordinary ASCII terminal, there is no way to distinguish | between <TAB> and ‘C-i’ (and likewise for other such pairs), because the | terminal sends the same character in both cases. `---- 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". Bye, Tassilo _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
