Re: [O] Assumptions on user's environment

[Karl Voit]

* Bastien <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Karl,

Hi Bastien!

> Karl Voit <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> So: what are these assumptions for Emacs/Org-mode? I guess this is
>> the root question we should try to answer (and document).
>
> Well, this is a general Emacs issue.  

Sure.

> I guess the assumption is that keybindings are optimized for US
> keyboards layouts - that said, some core keybindings are based on
> mnemonic (C-f and C-b to move forward and backward), so
> "optimized" seems a bit fuzzy anyway...

Fair enough. So there has to be a decision whether or not to invest
time/effort for users of QWERTZ keyboard layouts.

If we should decide to ignore non US_intl/en_US-issues, I vote for
making this decision very clear to new users with a prominent
sentence in our documentation.

Personally, I do think that tech-savvy users of non English speaking
countries should definitely consider switching to US_intl layout for
many reasons.  From my experience, only a minority of text-savvy
users are doing so. But this is also true for applying live-hacking
as a habit in general :-(

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