From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: OS X: Change default key bindings of CMD and ALT Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 15:47:35 +0200 Message-ID: <83mvsqbuh4.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451569628 10115 80.91.229.3 (31 Dec 2015 13:47:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 13:47:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Anders Lindgren Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 31 14:47:03 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1aEdZG-0008Vg-OY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Dec 2015 14:47:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55844 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aEdZG-0006Bj-4Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Dec 2015 08:47:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47975) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aEdZC-0006Be-E0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Dec 2015 08:46:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aEdZ9-0006jD-94 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Dec 2015 08:46:58 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57270) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aEdZ9-0006j9-5A; Thu, 31 Dec 2015 08:46:55 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2207 helo=HOME-C4E4A596F7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aEdZ8-00020k-FN; Thu, 31 Dec 2015 08:46:54 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Anders Lindgren on Thu, 31 Dec 2015 07:40:29 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:197255 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 07:40:29 +0100 > From: Anders Lindgren > > 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. Since this is an incompatible change, we should have an option to revert to the previous behavior (make sure to mention that in NEWS, btw). Also, if you want to turn this on by default, I think that can only be done on master; on the release branch the default should be the old behavior. Thanks.