GNU bug report logs - #24822
25.1; [PATCH] Support remapping control X keysym

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Vasilij Schneidermann <v.schneidermann <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 23:55:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch

Found in version 25.1

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #17 received at 24822 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Alex <agrambot <at> gmail.com>
To: Vasilij Schneidermann <v.schneidermann <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 24822 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24822: 25.1; [PATCH] Support remapping control X keysym
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 23:14:04 -0600

Vasilij Schneidermann <v.schneidermann <at> gmail.com> writes:

> There is a number of X keysyms that can be remapped inside Emacs, namely
> alt, hyper, meta and super.  I found it odd that control is not on the
> list (and to a lesser degree, shift), so I wrote a patch to offer it as
> additional remappable X keysym.  This way one can swap the control and
> meta key in Emacs with `(setq x-meta-keysym 'ctrl x-ctrl-keysym 'meta)`.

In the patch, all of the x-*-keysyms have the same docstring (including
the same examples and default). Is that intentional?
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