From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: key function to change Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 21:55:01 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Stefan Monnier Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="39815"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:Jz47Nuhx9+fnYzzKETvgau7pKyE= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 23 03:55:51 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1t3QbH-000AFB-MJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 23 Oct 2024 03:55:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1t3Qaf-0007sB-IB; Tue, 22 Oct 2024 21:55:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1t3Qae-0007ry-69 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Oct 2024 21:55:12 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1t3Qac-0006Jh-6o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Oct 2024 21:55:11 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1t3QaZ-0009aW-4P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Oct 2024 03:55:07 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.169, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_RPBL_BLOCKED=0.001, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_SAFE_BLOCKED=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:148215 Archived-At: > As default the menu key on the right produces the M-x prefix, but I > don't need it that often, so I would like to reduce this to M only > (e.g. for M-f, M-d, M-w, M > etc.). The "best" way to do that is outside of Emacs (so it will affect all applications rather than only Emacs), so as to make that key behave like the same modifier as the key left of the space bar. The way to do that has changed over the years, so I don't know how it is now. I used to do this with `xmodmap` but I think nowadays you'll need something different like `xkbset` or under Wayland probably yet something else. If you want that change to affect only Emacs, you can try something like (global-set-key [menu] "\e") [ Which may need to be tweaked depending on the exact even that key sends. ] but it probably won't work quite right (even after tweaking) because it will really behave like an ESC key, so you probably won't be allowed to hit that key *together* with `f` to get `M-f`. Stefan