Re: Modifier keys in Carbon Emacs

[Doug Alcorn]

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 16:07:20 -0700, Steven Tamm <address@hidden> wrote:
> In the short term, if you want to get something working for you, I would 
> suggest modifying mac_to_emacs_modifiers in src/macterm.c to do what you 
> need.  Something like
> 
>   if (NILP (Vmac_command_key_is_hyper) && (mods & cmdKey))
>     result |= hyper_modifier;

This is cool.  Thanks for this "patch".

> 
> In the long term, some work should be done to do xmodmap type modifier 
> translation: i.e. provide the ability to map all the mac modifier keys 
> (Cmd,Alt,Ctrl,Fn) to the emacs modifiers (C,M,A,H) or to system modifiers.  
> What would be the best way to represent this?

Would the mac equivalent of xmodmap be uControl?  http://gnufoo.org/ucontrol
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