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Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages
From: |
Jean Louis |
Subject: |
Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages |
Date: |
Sat, 13 Feb 2021 18:24:40 +0300 |
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Mutt/2.0 (3d08634) (2020-11-07) |
* Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> [2021-02-13 18:10]:
> Jean Louis wrote:
>
> > If s-a is prefix key, 26 letters + 26 upper case letters +
> > 10 numbers plus 32 symbols on my keyboard is 94 combinations
> > multiplied by 94 possible other following keys, not counting
> > possible middle suffix keys, yields ations is 8836 possible
> > bindings with Super key on this keyboard.
>
> Are you trying to compute the total number of keybindings?
>
> What do you mean by "middle suffix keys"?
That was mistake, sharp-eye. I was meaning prefix after prefix.
When s-p is prefix one can make s-p p also prefix, that increases
rapidly number of available keys. I favor prefixes like
MODIFIER-LETTER SAME-LETTER-AGAIN as such can be invoked quicker.
> What is the Super key? A modifier like C and M? Here are
> a bunch of standards:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_9995
Solution to make Super key work in console shall be
practical. Do you have more specific reference?
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- RE: [External] : Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key (why only one?) and reserve it for third-party packages, Drew Adams, 2021/02/14
- Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Jean Louis, 2021/02/13
- Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Jean Louis, 2021/02/13
- Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Emanuel Berg, 2021/02/13
- Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Jean Louis, 2021/02/13
- Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Emanuel Berg, 2021/02/13
- Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages,
Jean Louis <=
- Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Emanuel Berg, 2021/02/13
- Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Jean Louis, 2021/02/13
- Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Robert Thorpe, 2021/02/11
- Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Philip K., 2021/02/12
- RE: [External] : Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Drew Adams, 2021/02/11
- RE: [External] : Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Drew Adams, 2021/02/11
- Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Leo Butler, 2021/02/11
Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages, Gregory Heytings, 2021/02/15