GNU bug report logs - #51893
thoughts about keys

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Package: emacs; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Andreas Diener <Andreas-Diener@HIDDEN>; merged with #5011, #5206, #24729; dated Tue, 16 Nov 2021 14:28:01 UTC; Maintainer for emacs is bug-gnu-emacs@HIDDEN.
Merged 5011 5206 24729 51893. Request was from Alan Third <alan@HIDDEN> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. Full text available.
Severity set to 'wishlist' from 'normal' Request was from Alan Third <alan@HIDDEN> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. Full text available.

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package emacs
merge 51893 5206
thankyou

On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 09:55:19AM +0100, Andreas Diener wrote:
> Dear Madam or Sir,
>  
> first: I am from Germany and not a foreign language correspondence clerk, so please excuse my "not so nice" english. I
> hope you will understand my text (and my issue).
> I saw your email-adress on the gnu-emacs-site and I thought, you may be interested in a comment from a kind of frustrated
> "almost-Emacs-user".
>  
> My setting: as mentioned I am from Germany so I work with german keyboard-layout (on Mac), Emacs is 27.2. I am not a
> software engineer and I don't write programm code but "prosa" and at times I use LaTeX. To make notes I like to work with
> a "slim" editor and simple txt-files with which I can work later on.
> Looking around I recently stumbled over Vim and Emacs and I am impressed how powerful these programs are. And perhaps for
> me it is not really necessary to work with such advanced programms, I think it is beneficial to know them (and
> additional: very interesting and although not so easy to handle I think that's part of the fun).
>  
> Now: the Emacs seems not to be usable for me because of one thing (so far): on a german keyboard there are several
> important charakters only available in combination with "normal" keys and the ALT-key (= Meta-key in Emacs). In Emacs
> there are key bindings with the ALT-key and that's ok, but all the special characters (e.g. \, |, [, ], {, }, @, ~, „ “
> etc.), which I need kind of frequently (among others for LaTeX) are not available here.
> And I think that's kind of distressing, because the CMD-key (Mac) or Window-key, which seems to be on every keyboard
> these days, is directly next to the ALT-key and not used at all.
>  
> So the thing seems this to me: even I'd like to explore the Emacs more I am afraid I have to leave it as a serious
> option.

This is a duplicate of 5206 et al.

Unfortunately it's a question of defaults and there doesn't seem to be
a satisfactory solution.

If you're sure you never want to use the bindings on cmd, which
correspond with macOS shortcuts, you can put something like:

    (setq ns-alternate-modifier 'none
          ns-command-modifier   'meta)

in your init.el. There are other options which are described in the
"Mac / GNUstep Customization" section of the manual.
-- 
Alan Third




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<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;"><div>Dear Madam or Sir,</div>

<div>&nbsp;</div>

<div>first: I am from Germany and not a foreign language correspondence clerk, so please excuse my &quot;not so nice&quot; english. I hope you will understand my text (and my issue).<br/>
I saw your email-adress on the gnu-emacs-site and I thought, you may be interested in a comment from a kind of frustrated &quot;almost-Emacs-user&quot;.</div>

<div>&nbsp;</div>

<div>My setting: as mentioned I am from Germany so I work with german keyboard-layout (on Mac), Emacs is 27.2. I am not a software engineer and I don&#39;t write programm code but &quot;prosa&quot; and at times I use LaTeX. To make notes I like to work with a &quot;slim&quot; editor and simple txt-files with which I can work later on.<br/>
Looking around I recently stumbled over Vim and Emacs and I am impressed how powerful these programs are. And perhaps for me it is not really necessary to work with such advanced programms, I think it is beneficial to know them (and additional: very interesting and although&nbsp;not so easy&nbsp;to handle I think that&#39;s part of the fun).</div>

<div>&nbsp;</div>

<div>Now: the Emacs seems not to be usable for me because of one thing (so far): on a german keyboard there are several important charakters only available in combination with &quot;normal&quot; keys and the ALT-key (= Meta-key in Emacs). In Emacs there are key bindings with the ALT-key and that&#39;s ok, but all the special characters (e.g. &#92;, &#124;, [, ], {, }, @, ~, &bdquo; &ldquo; etc.), which I need kind of frequently (among others for LaTeX) are not available here.<br/>
And I think that&#39;s kind of distressing, because the CMD-key (Mac) or Window-key, which seems to be on every keyboard these days, is directly next to the ALT-key and not used at all.</div>

<div>&nbsp;</div>

<div>So the thing seems this to me: even I&#39;d like to explore the Emacs more I am afraid I have to leave it as a serious option.</div>

<div><br/>
hope you find this an interesting note from a noob,<br/>
best regards</div>

<div>Andreas Diener</div></div></body></html>




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