Re: Physical keyboard events

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 09:56:30 +0700
> 
> On 30/10/2024 00:46, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> From: Yuri Khan Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 23:55:49 +0700
> >> When I’m switched to a layout where the ‘a’ key produces an ‘ф’
> >> character, or an ‘α’, or a ち, I’d still want Ctrl+this key to behave
> >> as C-a.
> > 
> > Yes, but you want that _only_ for keys with modifiers.  Which is not
> > what will happen.  Some feature...
> 
> Not *for key with modifiers*, but during lookup in keymaps.

What Emacs key is NOT looked up in a keymap?  They all are.

So I don't understand what you are saying here.

> There are 
> enough keybindings that include keys without modifiers. It is a 
> recurring confusion that appears in every discussion of related bugs and 
> in mailing list threads, e.g.
> <https://debbugs.gnu.org/43830>
> "keyboard layout handling incompatible with rest of the OS"

That's exactly why I said "with modifiers": that bug report is about
C-s and the likes.  By contrast, when the keyboard language is
switched, you do NOT want the s/ы key to generate s instead of ы.