Re: Switch Meta and Alt modifiers

[Kai Großjohann]

address@hidden (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> WIBNI the user could tell Emacs to swap the meanings of the Alt and
> Meta modifier?  Or to tell Emacs that mod1 is Meta, even if
> x_find_modifier_meanings finds Alt_L and Alt_R there?

I have now committed something which does this.  There are new
variables x-{alt,hyper,meta,super}-keysym.  Allowed values are the
symbols alt, hyper, meta, and super.  So to switch the alt and meta
keys, one can do:

(setq x-alt-keysym 'meta)
(setq x-meta-keysym 'alt)

There might be unexpected side effects with the "use alt as meta if
there is no meta key" mechanism that's already in Emacs: If you (setq
x-alt-keysym 'meta) but the kbd doesn't have a meta key, then Emacs
will use the alt keys for the alt keysym.

kai
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