Re: Control-key binding while typing (for example) Hebrew

Amit Ramon <[email protected]> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:55:22 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.bidi
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> [2010-06-26 19:55 +0300]:
>
>Could you and Larry please look for an option of the X keyboard driver
>to leave the Ctrl- and Alt-modified keys untranslated?  This would
>eliminate at least some of the issue.  At least with commands like
>incremental search, it would be very inconvenient to have to switch
>the language between C-s and the string, especially since switching
>the language could produce an input event on some platforms, which
>will exit the I-search.

I started to look at it. So far it seems that under X it is (at least
to some extent) the responsibility of an application to take care of
handling modified keys. I'll try to look further into it, and will
post here any findings. Perhaps this is a question to the Emacs
developers.

--- Amit