Juanma Barranquero wrote:
On 10/29/07, Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Actually, I think Lennart pushed it enough at the time.
I remember that. The key words here are "at the time".
IMO, yes.
Moreover, if
someone fails to convince other developers of the goodness of his/her
patch, perhaps there are technical reasons for it...
The patch is perhaps/of course not perfect, but I think I remember there
were some grave misunderstandings.
FWIW, I'm quite opposed to low-level keyboard hooks, because they
bring in an enormous complexity when one wants to deal with non-ASCII
keyboard input.
And FWIW, I looked at the patch and it seemed to me like too much
complexity for too little gain. Perhaps I'm biased.
Of course we all are biased ;-) -- I would find it very cumbersome to
use Emacs without this patch. The main reason is that it provides easy
access to some keyboard handling:
- You can use the menus the way you normally do in Windows. The menus
are important for doing things you seldom do in Emacs.
- You can use META-Tab the way you normally do it in Emacs.'
- There are more, but (if I do not forget anything) those were the main
reasons.
This comes at the cost of not beeing able to use the left or/and Window
keys for normal Windows operation while in Emacs. A low cost for me.
The main part of the low level keyboard patch does not introduce any
complexity as far as I remember. The complexity is just slightly moved.
However the current use of Alt as META in Emacs hides some bugs
regarding the menu handling. If I remember correctly that is part of the
patch too. But it was a long time since I wrote that patch now and it
touches complex code in Emacs.
