-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > Kevin Kofler wrote: > >> it makes Shift+RAlt (in that order) behave >> (completely) differently than RAlt+Shift (in that order) > > Now, this is truly odd. Normally, one depresses shift and Alt, or shift > and Control, or shift and anything at the same time. > > The only place I have ever encountered pressing some modifier key, then > releasing it before typing the other keys (to the extent of my memory), is > Alt-SysRq+reisub, but I seem to recall that that got changed a while back > in how the key combination works, as I now type Alt-SysRq, then I release > SysRq but continue holding down the Alt while I type reisub. If I am not > mistaken, the old way required you to have 3 hands, as you had to hold > both Alt and SysRq down while typing reisub. Shift+RAlt is a release-before-use modifier. Similar to screen's ^A, ^O in my xmonad setup, and alt+d in plasma these days. > (But, as for what) Ben Boeckel wrote: >> The dead keys throw people off. > > Well, that is simply not true. All over the world, diacritical marks are > expected to be dead keys, or they wouldn't work. I mean those that have never seen a dead key before. It made it a pain for anyone to use my keyboard at all. I don't type them enough to need the keys to be dead, but enough that they need to be available. Maybe there should be a "how often do you type int'l chars"? option? - --Ben -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJLXdWqAAoJEKaxavVX4C1Xi/UQANJQjis1xqRsQr0l5L+40q8T gXd77A5Ce1L9YlzbGp4yTm67v9Ica2jrr0fyJM/spZjGAxjd9bb5Wv+3Hta5etXT us7Jm2I2wZuGlqdvRfcOurkcuKiMzpVraFieMBw5UigrG0bRpYAbMwE9jsi2+Y3h +EZEyGv5Q/jEK/HkA66z4bSnsI4l+c6R1U1ZVp8yUY9ZybjrNqfA3KfTyZeqYYhj bMKMbxC90jXF8/9lntmGpSwgMVR1Lm7Ry4J3y3GcIBugN9422cPjpINPfUzQF9r4 htReNkR6DHxrgWbbmM9MEq7Ix9iyh8QXA42iluIELR7pg/BFY/g8fC4czSk/UpQB JsA9IzT14r28EHHJ6cW6sF/6KjgM2ehgATGgacpibBDpTnIOUIYAQF5LsiQ1loKA Sz6rj/+fHzJAOMyDSL7T8EbjXLBy4TLPbOoipPNKdbJGR824j4gIRbd2JDJjE425 Wp8mpuh+xhUVgDyi2sma8ellSX6gwvXVi6KLO5EeF2VOqyrIFClKQ0499jz+boar p/H+zhyL9sclELc2nU3ykqSoMpGVeqXFcXKZm3tsCe+ldkdZwpvv7EkoTU6YlA0t p9IEFQJMD2pT+VitlGE/8tSBOPji+MFmC9h8TK291QBGovPlApNqZh8KZgQsz6Jf 4ic6yvy4CtPH9NUVLP/F =VCvu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
