Re: Default Emacs keybindings (was: Re: Menu suggestion)

[Steven Tamm <steventamm@mac.com>]

(if mac-command-key-is-meta
     (if mac-reverse-ctrl-meta 'C 'M)
     'A)

On Apr 27, 2004, at 8:17 AM, Kim F. Storm wrote:

> Steven Tamm <steventamm@mac.com> writes:
>
>>> My point being, making CUA default on Mac is not going to give
>>> Mac users what they expect.
>>
>> I'm with you 100%.  The only sensible CUA-mode on the Mac wouldn't
>> work; mostly because the default action-modifier is Command and not
>> control.   So emacs -nw would never DTRT.   Making CUA the default
>> would be counter-productive to me unless it was mapped to
>> Command-Z,X,C, and V (in a sense, regardless of the modifier to which
>> Command is mapped).    Since Command can be mapped to Control, Meta,
>> or Alt; the "Mac bindings" should be able to map to either M- or to
>> A-.
>
> How can I check which alternative to use in lisp ?
>
> Looking at mac-command-key-is-meta and maybe mac-reverse-ctrl-meta is
> probably the right thing to do, but I'm not sure I fully understand
> the meaning and relationship between those vars.  E.g which setting
> corresponds to Command = control ?
>
> -- 
> Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk
>
>
>
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