Re: Idea for compilation mode

[David Kastrup]

Stephan Stahl <address@hidden> writes:

> Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 07 Jun 2003 21:09:01 -0400, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm not interested in making any major changes in Emacs key bindings
> > > for the sake of non-US keyboards.
> > 
> > I was not proposing major changes, of course. Perhaps alternate
> > keybindings for the more difficult ones to type today (M-C-\, things
> > with ` and stuff like that).
> 
> A list of difficult keys and proposals for alternatives would be nice.
> I think
> ~ ` @ ^ |
> are some of those troublemakers. Any ideas for new bindings?

At least in German, the dead ones are the more problematic ones, ~ `,
maybe ^.  ~ and ` are rarely used in programming, too.  | is not that
bad and in the usual keybindings it has mnemonic value for pipes.

At least M-C-` and M-C-~ are not currently bound...

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