I switched to Colemak about 15 years ago and thought it would be a good idea to rethink all my Emacs keybindings, since my muscle memory was shot in that transition. (I don’t recommend this in hindsight.)
I have yet to get a terminal working fully like the GUI. Partly because I refuse to install a third-party key mapper.
Anyway, just tried this and Alacritty. It’s the closest I’ve got to fully working. My guess is another hour of tweaking and I could maybe get all the way there.
I can't even begin to imagine how complicated it'd be to get that working in "emacs -nw" (Emacs No Window, aka terminal)...
Thankfully I don't have no real need for terminal Emacs.
[1] Space-cadet keyboard with "Hyper" keys and, overall, really a lot of modifier keys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard#/media/Fi...
wild_egg•2mo ago
baobun•2mo ago
If you don't already have this problem it's not really relevant.
nine_k•2mo ago
- Uniformly describes different key codes across different terminal emulators and platforms;
- Sends the codes which native platforms support, but the terminal protocol does not, via a custom prefix. It gets decoded on the Emacs side, and mapped back to a native-matching key code. You can press fancy keys and have a uniform reaction in Emacs, no matter if you're using a local graphical Emacs, or remote Emacs in a terminal.
I confirm, this is a great approach; I used a much simplified version of it with WezTerm and remote Emacs.