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* OS X: Change default key bindings of CMD and ALT
@ 2015-12-31  6:40 Anders Lindgren
  2015-12-31  7:31 ` John Wiegley
  2015-12-31 13:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 19+ messages in thread
From: Anders Lindgren @ 2015-12-31  6:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel

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Hi!

Under OS X, the default key layout binds the following:

    CMD - Super
    ALT   - Meta

The "super" key map is in turn populated with commands to simulate typical
OS X key bindings like CMD-X, CMD-C, and CMD-V for cut, copy, and paste,
respectively.

The problem with this layout is that there is no "compose" key, so it's
impossible to write normal characters like "[", "]", "|", "\" etc.
Normally, they are typed using the ALT key.

I propose that we change it to:

    CMD - Meta
    ALT - Compose

This keyboard layout, incidentally, is the one used by the Carbon "mac"
port of Emacs (which is about to be integrated into the Emacs repository).

Unless anybody objects, I'll do this change in the next couple of days.

    -- Anders Lindgren

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2015-12-31  6:40 OS X: Change default key bindings of CMD and ALT Anders Lindgren
2015-12-31  7:31 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-31  8:17   ` Adrian.B.Robert
2015-12-31 16:02     ` John Wiegley
2016-01-01  1:40       ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2016-01-01  8:50         ` Bozhidar Batsov
2016-01-01 10:28           ` Anders Lindgren
2016-01-02  3:00             ` Random832
2016-01-02  6:02               ` Anders Lindgren
2016-01-02  6:17                 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-02  7:18                   ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2016-01-02 17:06                     ` John Wiegley
2016-01-02  8:42                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-02  9:07                   ` Random832
2016-01-03  7:27               ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2016-01-01  8:57         ` Adrian Robert
2016-01-01  9:58           ` Random832
2016-01-01 10:11           ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2015-12-31 13:47 ` Eli Zaretskii

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