From: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
To: John Mastro <john.b.mastro@gmail.com>
Cc: 31415@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31415: 27.0.50; Strange behavior on Command-$ in MacOS
Date: Sun, 13 May 2018 11:28:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180513102810.GD15823@breton.holly.idiocy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOj2CQQaQJoquA5+f0djUa+ZyevK6PfPMw898QsKpJpSQk=3cQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 06:30:33PM -0700, John Mastro wrote:
> By default, the "command" key in MacOS is bound to "super". If I type
> s-$, Emacs seems to wait for input that it never receives. Anything I
> type afterward appears to be ignored, except `ESC ESC ESC', which gets
> Emacs out of this state. However, even hitting `C-g' repeatedly does
> not.
>
> The issue seems to be related to the command key rather than to "super"
> or to the command bound to the key. In my configuration, I map command
> to meta, and the same problem happens when I use M-$ to `ispell-word'.
>
> Using `M-$' with command as meta worked until relatively recently. It
> would be great if it could be brought back or made to fail more
> explicitly.
Hmm, what’s happening is that macOS is going into a screenshot mode.
You can see the shortcuts in system preferences ‐> keyboard ‐>
shortcuts. I don’t know why you’ve not seen this before as I think
it’s been the default in macOS for quite a while now.
I don’t know if we can over‐ride this, and I don’t know that we’d want
to.
--
Alan Third
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-13 10:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-11 1:30 bug#31415: 27.0.50; Strange behavior on Command-$ in MacOS John Mastro
2018-05-13 10:28 ` Alan Third [this message]
2018-05-13 15:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-15 18:52 ` Alan Third
2018-05-15 19:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-11 19:21 ` Alan Third
2018-05-13 15:46 ` John Mastro
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