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Move Control modifier only in Emacs

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: andrey <at> fotola.ru
Cc: 5842 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5842: Move Control modifier only in Emacs
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 16:59:33 +1100

andrey <at> fotola.ru writes:

> This patch allows to move Control modifier only in Emacs.
> For example, you can do
> (setq x-ctrl-keysym 'meta)
> (setq x-meta-keysym 'ctrl)
> to swap Control and Meta in Emacs, but not in X Window.

[...]

> I would much prefer a patch that's independent of the underlying GUI, so
> we can use the same config vars under a tty, X11, Windows, ...

Is this possible to do on that level?

Anyway, I don't really feel that it makes much sense to have these piece
meal way of modifying some modifier keys in Emacs, when you can do that
directly in X (or whatever GUI you're using), so I'm closing this bug.

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