Re: master 3b41141708: Expose the name of an event's input device to Lisp

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>,  Richard
>  Stallman <rms@gnu.org>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2022 18:41:52 +0200
> 
> For instance, I have a pedal that's a USB HID thingie.  Amusingly
> enough, stomping on the pedal gives me a "b" event.  The key "b",
> indistinguishable from a "b" from the keyboard.
> 
> So if I could somehow say
> 
> (keymap-set global-mode-map "[device footpad]-b" 'do-something)
> 
> that would be ideal.

I would hope that such an event could be called just 'footpad-b', so
that any device capable of such events could be implemented as
emitting it, regardless of the device name/type/etc.