macintosh command-key as control key?

macintosh command-key as control key?

[Greg Trafton]

Hi, all.  I'm playing with a new keyboard and would like to
experiment with changing the apple command key to the control key
instead of the meta key.  what's the best way to do this?  I don't
want to switch control and meta, just add the apple command key as
another way of typing control...

thanks!
greg

Re: macintosh command-key as control key?

[Pascal Bourguignon]

Greg Trafton <trafton@itd.nrl.navy.mil> writes:

> Hi, all.  I'm playing with a new keyboard and would like to
> experiment with changing the apple command key to the control key
> instead of the meta key.  what's the best way to do this?  I don't
> want to switch control and meta, just add the apple command key as
> another way of typing control...
> 
> thanks!
> greg

In Emacs.app, on MacOSX, there are these two boolean variables:

     mac-command-key-is-meta
     mac-reverse-ctrl-meta

that should help you configure it as you want.

You  may want  to configure  it also  generally, with  uControl, which
allow you to exchange any couple of special keys.

-- 
__Pascal_Bourguignon__
http://www.informatimago.com/

Re: macintosh command-key as control key?

[Gilbert Harman]

One (long) way to do it is to add to your .emacs

(setq mac-pass-command-to-system nil)

and then use global-set-key to duplicate all your bindings for control,
as in the following example (probably from Andrew Choi):

;; Mac commands in emacs
(global-set-key [?\A-x] 'kill-region)
(global-set-key [?\A-c] 'kill-ring-save)
(global-set-key [?\A-v] 'yank)
(global-set-key [?\A-q] 'save-buffers-kill-emacs)

  Gil



On 11/18/03 10:13 AM, "Greg Trafton" <trafton@itd.nrl.navy.mil> wrote:

> Hi, all.  I'm playing with a new keyboard and would like to
> experiment with changing the apple command key to the control key
> instead of the meta key.  what's the best way to do this?  I don't
> want to switch control and meta, just add the apple command key as
> another way of typing control...
> 
> thanks!
> greg
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