bug#6033: 23.1; [Cocoa/GNUStep] Feature Request: right command/option bindings

[Chong Yidong]

David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:

> Of course I could be mistaken, but I don't think so.  Emacs explicitly
> handles translation of the modifier keys in nsterm.c and I don't see
> how anything outside of Emacs could make that handling deal with the
> right keys separately from the left.

Under GNU/Linux, you can use xmodmap to rebind Control_L and Control_R
separately.  So, for instance, if you do

  ~ $ xmodmap -e "remove control = Control_R"
  ~ $ xmodmap -e "add mod4 = Control_R"

then pressing Control-a with the right control key will emit Super-a.
I'm sure there is some equivalent functionality on Mac OS X.