Re: Modifier keys in Carbon Emacs

[Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de>]

YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp> writes:

>>>>>> On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 12:21:39 -0400, Doug Alcorn <lathinet@gmail.com> said:
>
>> (setq mac-command-key-is 'hyper
>>       mac-option-key-is 'meta
>>       mac-control-key-is 'control
>>       mac-function-key-is 'alt)
>
> Emacs on X11 has variables for modifier translation: x-alt-keysym,
> x-meta-keysym, x-hyper-keysym, and x-super-keysym.  How about
> following this convention?

These variables are less than perfect.  I already forgot what the
problem is, but I do remember that someone sent a message about it and
I was convinced that he was right.

Hm.

Ah!  Perhaps you want two keys to be meta.  You can't do this with the
variable x-meta-keysym.  But you could set both mac-command-key-is and
mac-function-key-is to `meta'.  So the way Doug suggests is better.

I think that was the argument.

I think it would be good if the variables x-*-keysym were also
replaced with a similar mechanism.  I can't promise that I find the
time, though.

Kai