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Re: Qs on key-description, substitute-command-keys


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Qs on key-description, substitute-command-keys
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 09:12:03 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> While I can understand the impulse behind this heuristic, it ultimately
> seems paternalistic ("we need to prepare you for the great variety of
> terminals that you may encounter").

No, it's just done for lack of anything better.  Currently, Emacs almost
never knows which keys you have access to.  The only exception is that we
try to figure out whether you have both `delete' and `backspace', but
already that only works in some restricted cases.

> 1) Emacs can usually query the environment to determine the nature of the
> keyboard in use.  With this information it can exclude bindings that would
> be impossible to produce.

Patch welcome,


        Stefan




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