Status: Accepted
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Labels: Component-Contrib Type-Enhancement Priority-Low
New issue 468 by byor...@gmail.com: EZConfig should resend unbound key
presses from submaps
http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=468
Creating a ticket for this so it doesn't get lost. See email exchange
below.
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 4:44 AM, Palo van Dalo
Hello Jason, Devin and Brent,
You 3 made it possible to use emacs-like shortcuts for the xmoand. But i have a problem: When i use "C-x" as prefix for all my xmonad commands (like in emacs) then I'm not able to send any kind of "C-x" prefixed key signals to my emacs. For example "C-x f" is not working anymore. I looked a bit in the code of you. And realized that it will take a lot of time for me to understand what i need to do. I hope that one of you will implement a patch, or someone can give me advice. The main problem is that submap forgets the key that was pressed before. My only idea at the moment is rewriting EZConfig that it will use submapDefault, with a function that sends a key signal (or more) to the client. I don't know if this is even possible. The other way would be a new package, or patching one of yours.
BTW, i use "C-z" and "M-z" at the moment, until i get this problem fixed.
Thanks for you packages and I'm looking forward to hearing from you. palo
Hi Palo, Thanks for your email, and sorry for the delay in responding. Yes, I can see how this would be a problem! Patching EZConfig so that it sends along key sequences that are not bound to anything should be possible, using submapDefault and, say, the sendKey function from XMonad.Util.Paste. Essentially the mkSubmaps and mkSubmaps' functions would have to be modified to carry along some extra information about the sequence of keypresses that have been used to get to the current point. Then that information could be used to create the default actions. (I have not thought very specifically about exactly what would need to be changed.) Unfortunately things are complicated by the addition of mkNamedKeymap and mkNamedSubmaps, which use a function (submapName) defined in a different module which would have to also be modified if you wanted to fix the Named variants as well.