Re: Some developement questions

[Filipp Gunbin]

On 10/09/2018 20:18 +0200, hw wrote:

>>>>>> You should have 2 Ctrl's and 2 Alt's (one of which could be AltGr)
>>>>>> on a German keyboard, so you should be in same situations as other
>>>>>> users.
>>>>>
>>>>> AltGr is not an Alt key.  There is only *one* Alt key on German
>>>>> keyboards, and it's on the left side.
>>>> [...]
>> Have you tried Emacs input methods I wrote about?  My impression is that
>> for any non-US script it should be convenient to use input methods.  It
>> might be the case that I'm wrong and people in Germany don't switch
>> between layouts, and do everything in default German layout.  But, say,
>> for Russian that is simply not possible, because the whole keyboard is
>> taken by Cyrillic alphabet.
>>
>> Of course we have OS-level switch, but I don't use that in Emacs because
>> other keys break (but they remain functional with input method turned
>> on).  I use OS-level layout switch only in other apps.
>
> I need to read about input methods first.  All the keys and characters
> are there plus a few, so we don't switch between layouts.  Some of the
> characters are more difficult to reach than on the US layout.
>
> It might be helpful to switch layouts for programming.  That would
> involve to create two xmodmaps for each keyboard and finding a way to
> switch.  Since the keys are physically not the same on all boards, that
> can get confusing.

With input methods you don't have to create OS-level layouts.