bug#6033: 23.1; [Cocoa/GNUStep] Feature Request: right command/option bindings

[David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>]

At Sun, 25 Apr 2010 14:35:51 -0400,
Chong Yidong wrote:
> 
> David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:
> 
> > One problem with working on a Mac is its paucity of modifier keys, not
> > to mention (on a laptop) that the modifiers that do exist are small
> > and easily confused with one another.  It would be fantastic if I
> > could assign the seldom-used right-side command and option keys to act
> > as hyper and super modifiers.
> 
> I think this lies outside the scope of Emacs.  It should be possible to
> find a Mac analog of xmodmap, which would do this.

Of course I could be mistaken, but I don't think so.  Emacs explicitly
handles translation of the modifier keys in nsterm.c and I don't see
how anything outside of Emacs could make that handling deal with the
right keys separately from the left.


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