Re: The Modernization of Emacs: terminology buffer and keybinding

On Jul 9, 8:44 am, Lew <l...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It's a standard rhetorical device. Someone presents evidence that contradicts
one's conclusion, e.g., that they entered Greek or Russian or Katakana
characters on their text terminal and it worked fine. This evidence is based
on actual experience. The person whose conclusion is destroyed then asserts
that the evidence is impossible or that the reporter is lying.

Oh, I quite believe that someone could enter Greek, Russion, OR
Katakana characters on their text terminal.

I also believe that someone could even enter Greek, Russian, AND
Katakana characters on their text terminal. Not all at the same time,
or with two out of the three at minimum typed blind, mind you, and
with all kinds of keyboard gymnastics for at least two of them
besides. (Unplugging one keyboard and plugging in another counts as
gymnastics, as does any hairy alt-meta-shift BS to enter foreign
chars, or simply changing the keyboard encoding driver and typing
blind since the keycaps no longer match what you're actually typing.)

On the other hand, if they get all those languages to display in all
their >256 native glyphs all on one line of the display, either
they're using a custom charset page that mixes some glyphs from each
language, or they're not using a text-mode display at all, but rather
a graphics display, even if only to display text. Basically, if it
won't work without using at least an EGA card in the box, rather than
on say a plain-jane IBM AT, or won't work on a (real, rather than
emulated) VT-100, or some such, then they cheated. :)

.

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