[COMMIT] Be better about searching for chars typed via XIM and x-compose.el, isearch
Mats Lidell
matsl at xemacs.org
Tue Mar 15 02:24:59 EDT 2011
>>>>> Aidan Kehoe <kehoea at parhasard.net> writes:
Aidan> Mats is curious about the need for
Aidan> try-alternate-layouts-for-commands, so here’s an attempt to
Aidan> explain what it does;
Thanks.
Aidan> for people in Russia or Greece, the keyboard by default doesn't
Aidan> generate Roman-alphabet characters. So it’s actually
Aidan> comparatively a lot of work to type control f or control b.
OK. I'm beginning to understand now...
Aidan> If try-alternate-layouts-for-commands is non-nil [...] XEmacs
Aidan> pretends for a second that the keyboard has a US layout...
So without try-alternate-layouts-for-command each package with
keybindings would have to provide a binding for all possible keyboard
layouts? Is this an XEmacs unique technique or is it used by other
editors?
Yours
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%% Mats
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