GNU bug report logs - #43830
keyboard layout handling incompatible with rest of the OS

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Message #47 received at 43830 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 43830 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#43830: keyboard layout handling incompatible with rest of
 the OS
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2020 23:25:22 +0300

> Can I do that automagically somehow, given that I switch keyboard layout
> three times a minute when I type? Doing it once won't help anything, since
> that would break shortcuts for English layout, and I want them work the
> same in _all layouts_.

If you rebind e.g. C-. to another command to use in another layout,
it won't work with the initial layout indeed.  reverse-im works well
when you need to rebind only letters, not punctuation.  This problem
is described here: https://github.com/a13/reverse-im.el/issues/6

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