From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: j@mremus.net
Cc: 44973@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44973: Add a macOS global hotkey function
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2020 21:39:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874kkw9gmq.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAgndd6u+=_Ux7wUmQ-ErinCUPRYLUeNo2j8Lz0jv=-_M1YLBw@mail.gmail.com> (j.'s message of "Mon, 30 Nov 2020 13:01:52 -0800")
j@mremus.net writes:
> MacOS makes it very difficult to assign global hotkeys to focus
> Emacs. For example, if I'm in another program, and I want to
> launch/focus Emacs with "Alt-SPC", it can't just be set in the system
> preferences; I'd need to use a 3rd-party program like skhd.
>
> Would it be possible to add a function or hook to Emacs which registers one or
> more global hotkeys (using addGlobalMonitorForEventsMatchingMask), and then
> when the hotkey is pressed, run an elisp function?
[...]
> Even if it's rare for Emacs to implement an OS-specific feature, there
> is some precedent on Windows. If you look at w32-register-hot-keys,
> it's similar to, but different from my request.
Sure, I think that makes sense. Would it be possible for you to work up
a patch that adds this functionality?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-08 20:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-30 21:01 bug#44973: Add a macOS global hotkey function j
2020-12-08 20:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2020-12-21 0:40 ` j
2020-12-21 4:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-30 4:10 ` j
2020-12-30 11:01 ` Alan Third
2020-12-30 17:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-04 5:13 ` j
2021-01-04 17:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-05 8:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-01-05 8:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-01-05 15:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-05 15:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-06 5:15 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-06 5:02 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-21 8:12 ` Alan Third
2020-12-21 16:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-21 16:34 ` Alan Third
2020-12-22 5:20 ` Richard Stallman
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