Re: [Xmonad] Re: darcs patch: mod-wer for Xinerama was inadvertently changed

On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 03:57:02PM -0500, Spencer Janssen wrote:

Alec sent me a patch:

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Thu Apr 12 09:20:33 EDT 2007 Alec Berryman * mod-wer for Xinerama was inadvertently changed

I believe this change was intentional, but I can't remember why. Does anyone have comments on this?

What change are you referring to? Back when I wrote the screen-switching code, I picked mod-wer to be the bindings. No huge reason for it; just makes sense to me. Then, somebody (I don't know who hughes@rpi.edu is) got this patch into the repo: [Config.hs avoids conflict with essential M-w Emacs shortcut. hughes@rpi.edu**20070401015135] { hunk ./Config.hs 98 - | (key, sc) <- zip [xK_w, xK_e, xK_r] [1..] + | (key, sc) <- zip [xK_e, xK_r, xK_t] [1..] } ...because they wanted alt-w to work in Emacs. I take a dim view of this rationale, because in my opinion, the answer to key clobbering is to change your modMask to the windows key or similar approach. Later, dons was cleaning up the hodgepodge of keybindings, and asked me about that in IRC. At that point, dons changed it back to mod-wer. IRC log: http://tunes.org/~nef/logs/haskell/07.03.31 discussion starting at 20:09:22 Jason Creighton