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bug#41403: A more user-friendly version of GNU Emacs
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Mattias Engdegård |
Subject: |
bug#41403: A more user-friendly version of GNU Emacs |
Date: |
Wed, 22 Sep 2021 20:47:56 +0200 |
22 sep. 2021 kl. 20.01 skrev Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>:
> That's exctly the problem. What Apple calls the Option key, is the Alt
> key on ordinary keyboards.
But they never switched the keys that you claimed they did.
Apple have their own keyboard design tradition and while they later reconciled
their layout with that from IBM, they didn't somehow take IBM's keyboard and
make arbitrary changes for nefarious reasons.
There isn't necessarily a bijection between Mac and PC keys. Option mostly
corresponds to today's AltGr (for input of more characters) but is also used to
modify function keys and mouse clicks. Command was originally designed as a
more principled variant of the conventional Control key (ie, for function
keystrokes), but better located and without the historical TTY control code
baggage. Later on Control was added to Mac keyboards as well for use in
terminal emulators and the like, and is today just another modifier.
From your point of view you may wish that company this-and-that would have made
different decisions and so do I (most definitely), but history is what it is.
- bug#41403: A more user-friendly version of GNU Emacs, (continued)
- bug#41403: A more user-friendly version of GNU Emacs, Stefan Kangas, 2021/09/22
- bug#41403: A more user-friendly version of GNU Emacs, Andreas Schwab, 2021/09/22
- bug#41403: A more user-friendly version of GNU Emacs, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/09/22
- bug#41403: A more user-friendly version of GNU Emacs, Stefan Kangas, 2021/09/22
- bug#41403: A more user-friendly version of GNU Emacs, Alan Third, 2021/09/22
- bug#41403: A more user-friendly version of GNU Emacs, Stefan Kangas, 2021/09/22
bug#41403: A more user-friendly version of GNU Emacs, Eduardo Ochs, 2021/09/17
bug#41403: A more user-friendly version of GNU Emacs, Andreas Schwab, 2021/09/22
- bug#41403: A more user-friendly version of GNU Emacs,
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