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Re: Which modifier to use?


From: Jean Louis
Subject: Re: Which modifier to use?
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2020 08:40:05 +0300
User-agent: Mutt/2.0 (3d08634) (2020-11-07)

* TRS-80 <lists.trs-80@isnotmyreal.name> [2020-12-06 00:30]:
> > On 2020-12-05 10:03, Arthur Miller wrote:
> > 
> > I leave Super to my window manager and xbindkeys; and all other
> > modifiers go to applications. It is a rule. Makes life easier if you
> > switch between Windows and GNU/Linux
> 
> Luckily I can avoid Windoze nearly 100% of the time nowadays, however I
> still follow this rule and think it's a great idea, anyway.
> 
> I use i3 (wm) and have lots of custom keybindings at the OS/WM level,
> they are all based on using Super as modifier.  So, in my mind, Super
> (aka "Win") has to do with window manager.
> 
> Inside Emacs, I also group related keybindings behind a sort of "leader"
> key, for example (dk here is alias for define-key, stricty to shorten
> these lines so I can keep nice formatting):
> 
> (dk global-map (kbd "C-c y")   '("Yankpad"               . nil))
> (dk global-map (kbd "C-c y c") '("Capture"               .

I see it is better to describe keys.




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