From: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
To: j@mremus.net
Cc: 44973@debbugs.gnu.org, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: bug#44973: Add a macOS global hotkey function
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 08:12:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <X+BY1DS3o5/z7RkK@breton.holly.idiocy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAgndd5jbXk+s7aY=X05wOaJ87T-GAza2EXZKxkVgUc1FRrOxQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 04:40:37PM -0800, j@mremus.net wrote:
> Hi Lars,
>
> I'm pretty close to having a patch ready, but I'm stuck in one key spot. I
> don't know if anyone on the list could help?
>
> After the user registers a hotkey, and when they press the hotkey, MacOS
> will run the code below. On the line "RUN_SOME_ELISP_FUNCTION", I would
> expect some elisp function to be run (e.g. 'emacs-version').
>
> But no matter what I do, it always crashes the program. I think my first
> problem is not knowing how to call elisp (run_hooks, safe_call, etc?)
> correctly, but second, I suspect if this is crashing due to a threading
> issue.
>
> handler = [NSEvent
> addGlobalMonitorForEventsMatchingMask:(NSEventMaskKeyDown)
> handler:^(NSEvent *event){
> if (event.modifierFlags & modifier)
> if([event.charactersIgnoringModifiers characterAtIndex:0] ==
> vkey) {
> RUN_SOME_ELISP_FUNCTION
> [[NSApp mainWindow] makeKeyAndOrderFront:NSApp];
> }
> }
> }];
I think you probably want to send an event to Emacs, that way a user
can bind it to anything they like. Look at, say, [EmacsApp openFile:]
for how do that.
One potential problem with your approach is that we don't accept code
using Objective C blocks as it's incompatible with GCC. Unless that
policy has changed?
--
Alan Third
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-21 8:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-30 21:01 bug#44973: Add a macOS global hotkey function j
2020-12-08 20:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-21 0:40 ` j
2020-12-21 4:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-30 4:10 ` j
2020-12-30 11:01 ` Alan Third
2020-12-30 17:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-04 5:13 ` j
2021-01-04 17:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-05 8:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-01-05 8:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-01-05 15:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-05 15:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-06 5:15 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-06 5:02 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-21 8:12 ` Alan Third [this message]
2020-12-21 16:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-21 16:34 ` Alan Third
2020-12-22 5:20 ` Richard Stallman
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