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From: | Denis Bueno |
Subject: | Re: Modifier keys in Carbon Emacs |
Date: | Thu, 16 Sep 2004 20:20:40 -0400 |
On 16 Sep 2004, at 17.19, Doug Alcorn wrote:
I had complained briefly in another thread about certain non-mac-ness of the carbon port of emacs. I think I can boil all of it down to how modifier keys are handled. I know about mac-command-key-is-meta and mac-pass-*-to-system. What I can't decide is how to best use them. On the one hand (as a new mac user) I'm trying to get used to all the Cmd-X keyboard shortcuts. On the other hand (as a recent Linux user) I'm used to Alt being Meta and being immediately next to the space bar. Leaving mac-command-key-is-meta set as t means that I won't be able to use Cmd-tab to switch apps.
I am using Carbon Emacs (GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.3.0) of 2004-04-17 on Taggart.local) on Panther 10.3.5 and I have mac-command-key-is-meta set to t: but I can still Command-Tab between applications, when Emacs has the focus. Is this not the intended behavior? (mac-pass-control-to-system and mac-pass-command-to-system are both t.)
I'm also using a Happy Hacking Lite keyboard (http://shop.store.yahoo.com/pfuca-store/haphackeylit1.html), with the DIP switches set such that the diamond-shaped key (located where Cmd would be on a Mac keyboard) acts like Alt, and Alt (where Option would be on a Mac keyboard) acts like Option. So hitting Diamond-Q right now would quit Mail. Does this make any difference?
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