Re: Keystroke inconsistencies between GUI and -nw emacs?

[Suvayu Ali]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 07:51:43PM +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 21:01:10 +0300
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > > Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 18:38:36 +0100
> > > From: Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@gmail.com>
> > > In the GUI the F10 opens the GUI menu, which is ok. The only thing I
> > > was surprised about is that the GUI menu is not
> > > keystroke-equivalent to the tmm-menubar.
> > 
> > The GUI menu is in most cases implemented in the toolkit used by
> > Emacs, not in Emacs itself.  So the shortcut keys that control the GUI
> > menu are the keys defined by the toolkit.  Emacs cannot redefine them,
> > at least not easily (and if it did, users might complain, since they
> > are used to what the toolkit does).
> 
> Oh, I see --- so you are saying that if I run Emacs under, say KDE,
> then the Qt toolkit would be responsible for the menus, and the
> corresponding keybindings would be defined and controlled by Qt rather
> than Emacs itself. Or something along those lines.

Actually not run but compile with.  AFAIK, toolkit is used at the source
level, not runtime.  If it were possible to compile Emacs with Qt (is
it?  I don't know), you could have emacs-gtk and emacs-qt: the emacs-gtk
binary using the gtk toolkit, and the emacs-qt binary using Qt.

-- 
Suvayu

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