From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
Cc: Kumaran Santhanam <kumaran@alumni.stanford.org>, 14736@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14736: 24.3; "Insert" key results in question mark mouse cursor and does not send a keyboard event
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 08:02:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871r80p121.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2r3ciufix.fsf@breton.holly.idiocy.org> (Alan Third's message of "Tue, 31 May 2016 21:41:10 +0100")
Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org> writes:
> Kumaran Santhanam <kumaran@alumni.stanford.org> writes:
>
>> On Mac OS X, the "Insert" key on external keyboards is mapped to
>> "Help". Therefore, when the "Insert" key is pressed, the mouse cursor
>> turns into a question mark and the key is not passed to Emacs to
>> process. This is problematic because users may have keybindings from
>> Linux and Windows that make use of the "Insert" key.
>
> Confirmed as still present in Emacs 25.
>
> Is there some use for the "help" key and question-mark pointer?
>
> Interestingly, it looks like on recent Apple keyboards "insert" is
> replaced with fn instead of help.
I don't have an external keyboard for my Apple laptop, so I can't test
myself. Is this issue still present in newer versions of Emacs/Macos?
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2013-06-28 1:21 ` bug#14736: 24.3; "Insert" key results in question mark mouse cursor and does not send a keyboard event Kumaran Santhanam
2016-05-31 20:41 ` Alan Third
2021-07-15 6:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-07-25 11:36 ` Alan Third
2021-07-28 15:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-30 18:19 ` Alan Third
2021-08-29 20:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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