From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help 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) Message-ID: <01f1d79b-c58d-401b-a46f-5520a9a9fadb@googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1421032524 29556 80.91.229.3 (12 Jan 2015 03:15:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 03:15:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 12 04:15:20 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YAVTL-0004z1-QP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 04:15:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60198 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YAVTL-0001eB-5p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Jan 2015 22:15:19 -0500 X-Received: by 10.236.26.108 with SMTP id b72mr18603531yha.33.1421032483393; Sun, 11 Jan 2015 19:14:43 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.50.49.2 with SMTP id q2mr192896ign.12.1421032483289; Sun, 11 Jan 2015 19:14:43 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!f12no524061qad.0!news-out.google.com!qk8ni2634igc.0!nntp.google.com!h15no3614072igd.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.6.157; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.6.157 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 03:14:43 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:209738 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:102017 Archived-At: 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