TECO (and thus Emacs) supported a commands like "read page" which turned into movement by page in Emacs, which is why ^L shows up in Emacs Lisp (and sometimes similar vintage code)
To some of the critics here: did you or did you not notice the “Somebody ought to write one of those […] Here, I'll even get the ball rolling” framing? A polished such article this is not claiming itself to be! I would go as far as saying the HN submission title is misleading as a result.
How's CL's GC performance for games nowadays? I've been slightly eyeing the upcoming Autumn Lisp Game Jam myself, but last I checked all the major libre CL impls, including SBCL, still used a full stop-the-world collector, which feels like a recipe for latency spikes. I saw flashes of stuff on sbcl-devel about someone working on a lower-latency one, but I don't know whether it got anywhere.
Re “configured”—what's your locale? In en_US.UTF-8 on my Arch system it's in the system file (/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose) as <Multi_key> <minus> <underscore>.
This is interesting—my observations on Windows 10 (mostly with a layout arranged via MSKLC) have always been that it does some kind of QWERTY-on-Control thing which I'd actually like to turn off but never found out how to; my keyboard shortcut memory seems to indirect through keysyms in a way loosely symmetrical with how my Cinnamon FDO/Linux desktop handles things, rather than being position-based, with the exception of WASD-like game controls which are positional. Is the main difference with your utility that it handles Alt as well?
Hmm. I haven't actually used a Windows desktop for anything other than gaming in decades. Probably the last time I actually used my remapping tool on Windows was in the XP days. I guess it's possible that Windows 10+ now includes such functionality by default, but this would surprise me.
Not the parent commenter, but I've encountered “people from the counterparty organization get confused and wonder whether you're part of it too / pretending to be part of it too”. This can be mitigated with some obscuring transformation.
>Not the parent commenter, but I've encountered “people from the counterparty organization get confused and wonder whether you're part of it too / pretending to be part of it too”. This can be mitigated with some obscuring transformation.
A fair point. Thanks!
Personally, I can't be bothered and when (not if -- the scenario you've outlined has happened with me) folks get confused, I just explain that I do it to fight spam and they generally just nod agreeably. Whether they get it or not isn't my concern -- knowing whose user database has been pwned is.
