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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> But we cannot determine whether a given device is a foot pedal without
>> the help of the user.
>
> Who is "we" in this context?  What level of Emacs input processing
> does this "we" allude to?

The OS doesn't know that the footpad HID device is a footpad, and we
certainly don't want to maintain a list in Emacs to map device
identifiers to classes -- that'd be a maintenance nightmare.

But we can allow users to see the device name (in C-h k, for instance),
and then allow the user to bind these events by referring to these names.

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