Swtich from
<name> = <key>
to
<key> = <name>
and confine keys to a single alias. This is arguably more intuitive
and reduces both config and implementation complexity.
Tidy up the parsing logic and make everything valid c11
while we are at it :P.
The patch also eliminates the optional macro argument from swap(),
replacing it with a dedicated function (swap2()).
This breaks compatibility with a small number of configs,
but makes things more consistent.
This patch makes simple macros of the form `<mods>-<key>` less noisy by
avoiding the redundant release/depression of modifiers which are already
active. This used to be the default behaviour prior to 2.3.0-rc, but was
changed to accommodate #128 (among other things). In most cases the
additional noise is transparent to the application, but notably breaks
Gnome tab-switching via swap, since Gnome cares about intermediate
modifier state.
The stock XCompose file which ships with most distros isn't exhaustive
and uses a number of layout specific keysyms intended to be easy to
memorize (rather than globally accessible). To circumvent this problem
we ship our own set of simplified compose definitions.
If we encounter a utf8 sequence corresponding to a glyph for which a
known XKB compose sequence exists, we replace the glyph with the
corresponding sequence. This allows non-english users to easilly specify
alternate glyphs without having to memorize the appropriate macros.
Raheman Vaiya
Tej Chajed
Ali Shahid