From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Mark Bestley" <gnu@bestley.co.uk>
Cc: 51449@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#51449: 28.0.50; iso-transl overwrites alt key bindings
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 10:12:32 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83sfwltyfz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <abeb39e3-cbbb-4cc4-b025-ef3df3011c90@www.fastmail.com> (gnu@bestley.co.uk)
> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 21:42:19 +0100
> From: "Mark Bestley" <gnu@bestley.co.uk>
>
> In emacs -Q just need something to get the Alt key bound
> e.g.
> (setq mac-command-modifier 'alt)
>
> The when you Type A-c you get ¢ and you cannot bind it yourself.
>
> On a mac I want the key by space to be Alt as that is what is printed on
> my PC keyboard. I suspect this is true with PCs
>
> The issue is that (require 'iso-transl) is called before the user can alter its behaviour and that iso-transl.el
> then binds to various A-c and other keys.
>
> This makes it impossible to use Alt as a modifier key
>
> load-history shows
>
> ("/Applications/MacPorts/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp/subdirs.el")
> ("/Applications/MacPorts/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/site-lisp/subdirs.el")
> ("/Applications/MacPorts/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp/leim/leim-list.el")
> ("/Applications/MacPorts/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp/international/iso-transl.elc"
> iso-transl-dead-key-alist iso-transl-char-map iso-transl-language-alist iso-transl-ctl-x-8-map
> (defun . iso-transl-define-keys)
> (defun . iso-transl-set-language)
> (provide . iso-transl))
> ("/Applications/MacPorts/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp/tooltip.elc"
> (require . syntax)
>
> In emacs 27 iso-transl was not called that early and only seem to be
> called by describe-bindings and so could be overridden as shown in Aquamacs
iso-transl is preloaded now. But I don't think I understand why it
gets in your way: can't you unbind the bindings that iso-transl does,
if you have no use for them, or rebind them after changing Alt to be a
modifier key if you do have use for iso-transl?
(Caveat: I don't use a Mac, so I may be missing some Mac-specific
issue here.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-28 7:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-27 20:42 bug#51449: 28.0.50; iso-transl overwrites alt key bindings Mark Bestley
2021-10-27 21:48 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-10-28 7:12 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-10-28 8:12 ` Mark Bestley
2021-10-28 8:40 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-10-28 8:51 ` Mark Bestley
2021-10-28 8:57 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-10-28 9:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-28 10:53 ` Mark Bestley
2022-09-19 20:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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