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bug#6033: 23.1; [Cocoa/GNUStep] Feature Request: right command/option bi
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David Abrahams |
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bug#6033: 23.1; [Cocoa/GNUStep] Feature Request: right command/option bindings |
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Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:04:40 -0400 |
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Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.9 (Gojō) APEL/10.7 Emacs/23.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.8.0) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) |
At Sun, 25 Apr 2010 14:35:51 -0400,
Chong Yidong wrote:
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> David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:
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> > 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.
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> 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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