Re: M-TAB already used by KDE

[Fredrik Staxeng]

kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:

>Fredrik Staxeng <fstx+u@update.uu.se> writes:
>
>> What's the name in Emacs for mod5?
>
>Emacs does not have a name for this.  Emacs looks in the (equivalent
>of the) output of "xmodmap -pm" for the modifiers.

I found a picture of the space-cadet keyboard on the web:

http://screenshots.sourceforge.net/misc/SpaceCadet1.jpg

The web page says that this was used with LMI machines as well. It has
Shift, Ctrl, Meta, Super, Hyper, Greek and Top. The X keyboard model
is definitely not enough to support this keyboard. 

But anyway, since there is no specific name for mod5 there is no way
to use five distinct modifiers (in addition to Shift and Ctlr) with
Emacs, is there? 

With universal UTF-8 support just around the corner, people might 
want to put real alphas etc in their Tex/Nroff documents. Thus a 
Greek modifier is needed :-)


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"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@kemisten.nu> writes:

[Peter Galbraith:]
>    Get off it.  Linux is a kernel.  Linux distributions are a kernel plus
>    all the other stuff.  There are no Linux distributions of only a kernel.
> 
> And this "other stuff" is a variant of GNU.
> 
>    Yes, he could have said GNU/Linux distros, but the context made it
>    abundantly clear that he wasn't talking about just a kernel.
> 
> It was also wrong.  Is there any reason why you need to start flaming?

Playing stupid might make you feel smug, but is hardly productive in
winning people to your cause.  And I don't see that Peter was flaming
here.

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   Playing stupid might make you feel smug, but is hardly productive in
   winning people to your cause.  And I don't see that Peter was flaming
   here.

It was an polite correction, Peter obviously did not like it and
posted an reply that had an intent to provoke someone.  Calling
someone stupid is clearly an intent for a flame...