From: Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Possible to make Super (Windows) key be just another Meta key like ESC?
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 19:14:42 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01f1d79b-c58d-401b-a46f-5520a9a9fadb@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cd9cee95-ac88-4798-a9a3-ee9c2afc3f81@googlegroups.com>
On Monday, January 12, 2015 at 5:47:31 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Seberino wrote:
> Possible to make Super (Windows) key be just another Meta key like ESC?
>
> All the docs I read all wanted to set some combo of Super key + something else.
>
> I want JUST the Super key to be another Meta key if possible.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Chris
Firstly if you do C-h c ESC x
you should see that emacs says M-x is translated from ESC x
so ESC is an emulation of Meta on emacs.
And so (secondly) if you want emacs to see a Windows exactly
like and ESC, that needs to be done at the X level
ie at a lower level of OS outside of emacs.
On ubuntu something like this http://www.wikihow.com/Change-Keyboard-Layout-in-Ubuntu may work.
Else there are lower level options like xmodmap and xkb.
xmodmap is more straightforward but obsolete and not recommended
xkb is quite a nightmare see
https://askubuntu.com/questions/325272/permanent-xmodmap-in-ubuntu-13-04/347382#347382?newreg=4eb097870a15490ebbe39d78412f9797
[Just for context, I think using the keyboard effectively
to input unicode is important and I am a complete noob at it :-)
My finding is that xkb is very powerful and terribly documented:
http://blog.languager.org/2015/01/unicode-and-universe.html
and other posts tagged unicode
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-12 0:17 Possible to make Super (Windows) key be just another Meta key like ESC? Chris Seberino
2015-01-12 0:44 ` Grant Rettke
2015-01-12 1:39 ` Sam Varshavchik
2015-01-12 22:27 ` Grant Rettke
[not found] ` <mailman.17782.1421101658.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-01-18 4:56 ` Chris Seberino
[not found] ` <mailman.17705.1421023477.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-01-12 2:55 ` Chris Seberino
2015-01-12 7:06 ` Glyn Millington
2015-01-12 2:58 ` Chris Seberino
2015-01-12 3:10 ` Sam Varshavchik
2015-01-12 3:14 ` Rusi [this message]
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