Re: Carbon Emacs binding to Enter key

[James Davidson]

On 12/20/04 6:41 PM, Tiago Maduro-Dias wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I've recently "discovered" the usefulness of the enter key (the one next 
> to the arrow keys and the space-bar), at least on my laptop's keyboard, 
> as an alternative to the regular return key. But I also seem to have 
> encountered an interesting issue (read "feature"?) with Carbon Emacs 
> 21.3.50 (on Mac OSX Panther).
>
> When I press the key, the event seems to be attached to C-c. In fact, 
> pressing it twice will result in the obvious C-c C-c and C-h c ends up 
> with "Describe key briefly: C-c-" on my minibuffer (waiting for another 
> event).
>
> If I run both the original emacs-21.2.1 or emacs-21.3.50 from 
> Terminal.app (with either emacs -nw or emacs -q -nw), the enter key will 
> behave as expected (by me at least). If I use the faithful xterm, then 
> the behaviour just described for Carbon Emacs happens again. This makes 
> sense to me, since Terminal.app is interpreting the strokes, and uses 
> the smilingly standard macosx interpretation for the particular key.
>
> So, how can I go about forcing the key to bind to what I want it to? 
> (character 13, newline, or something of the sort)?
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Tiago Maduro-Dias.

You may need a package like ucontrol
        <http://www.gnufoo.org/ucontrol/uControl1.4.4.dmg>

Most Mac OSX Emacs users use this to rebind the caps lock key into control.

It also supports rebinding of the enter key into other things; a common 
usage is to rebind it to 'fn', so that page-up and page-down can be done 
with one hand.

-Jim