Tassilo Horn <t...@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. -- underground experts united _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english