Re: Annoying Fonts Window in Emacs on MacOS - How to Hide

[Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>]

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OK, this is one of those instances where the specific build and local
configuration make a difference. I have this in my init.el

  (setq mac-command-modifier 'meta)
  (setq mac-option-modifier 'none)

which makes things work like my Linux system (I use 'super' for OS level
actions, like switching desktops, rather than for Emcs. This also means I
don't have 's' (super) mappings in emacs. If you wanted to just get rid of
s-t, you could unbind the key and problem solved. e.g.

(global-unset-key "s-t")


On Thu, 31 Oct 2019 at 16:35, Mark H. David <mhd@yv.org> wrote:

> C-h k
>
> =>
>
> s-t runs the command ns-popup-font-panel (found in global-map), which
> is an interactive built-in function in ‘C source code’.
>
> It is bound to s-t.
>
> (ns-popup-font-panel &optional FRAME)
>
> Pop up the font panel.
>
>
> ----- Original message -----
> From: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>
> To: "Mark H. David" <mhd@yv.org>
> Cc: chad <yandros@gmail.com>, Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>, EMACS
> development team <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: Annoying Fonts Window in Emacs on MacOS - How to Hide
> Date: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 5:47 PM
>
> that is a good point regarding the version/build of Emacs. I use to build
> using the homebrew recipe, then I used the pre-built homebrew keg
> (essentially emacsformac version), but now I use railwaycat's recipe as
> I've found it to be the best (best meaning emacs behaves most like it does
> on Linux and what I'm use to).
>
>
> What happens if you do C-h k and then enter command+t?
>
> On my system, that runs 'transpose words'. If Emacs does not respond when
> you enter command+t then it means that key binding is being picked up by
> the macOS and not emacs and must be turned off at the OS level.
>
> On Thu, 31 Oct 2019 at 09:16, Mark H. David <mhd@yv.org> wrote:
>
>
> I wasn't quite sure myself, so here's what I did: I downloaded and
> installed from emacsformacosx.com and tried this.
> Bottom line: same problem reproducible in latest versions.
> I took notes, so here are all the gory details:
>
> - Go to https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
> - Click MacOS download button
>   - Now here: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html#macos
> - Click Emacs for OSX link
>   - Now here: https://emacsformacosx.com/
> - Click Other Versions button
>   - Now here: https://emacsformacosx.com/builds
> - Click "Emacs-26.3-universal.dmg" link to download it
> - It downloaded the file at following URL
>   https://emacsformacosx.com/emacs-builds/Emacs-26.3-universal.dmg
> - I then installed, and then brought it up.
> - Now here's version info: "GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1,
> x86_64-apple-darwin18.2.0, NS appkit-1671.20 Version 10.14.3 (Build
> 18D109)) of 2019-09-02"
> - Result: same behavior as described before (Command+T shows but does not
> hide annoying fonts window.)
>
> ----- Original message -----
> From: chad <yandros@gmail.com>
> To: "Mark H. David" <mhd@yv.org>
> Cc: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>, EMACS development team <
> emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: Annoying Fonts Window in Emacs on MacOS - How to Hide
> Date: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 1:09 PM
>
> If you don't mind me asking, how are you getting a modern Emacs on macOS?
> In particular, are you building it yourself, are you using homebrew, are
> you running the Mac port, are you using emacsformacosx.com, or
> railwaycat's github or homebrew build? I ask because this sort of
> native-system setting is sometimes added/enabled by default in one of the
> native-ized ports but not in the gnu master. (I no longer have good access
> to a macOS machine to check for myself; sorry.) Knowing this might help
> figure out how to deal with the (mis)feature -- particularly, not being
> able to dismiss the font selector with Command-T, or not being able to
> dismiss it at all.
>
> Thanks,
> ~Chad
>
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 3:32 PM Mark H. David <mhd@yv.org> wrote:
>
> Fantastic - thank you. That would work as a workaround.
> It seems a bug should be made for the behavior Command+T not getting rid
> of the popup. Hopefully, that should not be too hard. The current behavior
> seems to be if it's up already, don't do anything.  It should be changed to
> close the popup in that case.
> Thoughts?
> Thanks,
> -Mark
>
> ----- Original message -----
> From: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
> To: "Mark H. David" <mhd@yv.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Annoying Fonts Window in Emacs on MacOS - How to Hide
> Date: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 3:18 PM
>
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 12:31:02PM -0700, Mark H. David wrote:
> > I frequently type Command+T by mistake in Emacs because in browser
> > apps (particularly Chrome) it's used for creating a new tab, and I
> > do that so often, I must do it by mistake. I almost never change
> > fonts, and never with command+t. Ever. So, I looked into this a bit,
> > and it's a documented "feature" for Emacs on MacOS (see:
> > https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SetFonts#toc14) and for MacOS
> > generally for documents (see:
> > https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236). Apple's MacOS doc says:
> > Command-T: Show or hide the Fonts window.
> >
> > In various apps with document windows (e.g., build-in TextEdit as
> > well as Emacs) it is supposed to pop up a window thingee that lets
> > you choose fonts. Whatever, I never use. I always just want to get
> > rid of it.
> >
> > Here's the annoying and buggy part with respect to Emacs: you cannot
> > hide it from the keyboard. It's supposed hidden by doing a second
> > Command+T. That works in other apps, e.g., TextEdit, but it doesn't
> > work in Emacs. In addition, you cannot select the popup "windoid"
> > that results, even by Command+`. Even if you do select the windoid
> > somehow (e.g., by clicking it), you cannot dismiss it by typing
> > Command+W.
>
> Usually when I get the fonts window open I just can’t get rid of it at
> all.
>
> I’d suggest unbinding super-t, something like:
>
>     (global-unset-key (kbd "s-t"))
>
> --
> Alan Third
>
>
>
>
> --
> regards,
>
> Tim
>
> --
> Tim Cross
>
>
>

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regards,

Tim

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Tim Cross

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