Re: Mac OSX/Carbon - recent changes break menu bar shortcuts

[Lawrence Akka]

On 28 Apr 2005, at 13:29, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu wrote:

> > > > > > On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 08:03:29 +0100, Lawrence Akka 
> > > > > > <address@hidden> said:
>
> > A change over the past week has meant that the keybindings for
> > cut/copy/paste no longer show up on the edit menu under OSX/carbon.
>
> > For example:
>
> > emacs -Q (cua-mode 1)
>
> > Edit menu shows Cut (<cut>), Paste (<paste>) instead of Cut (C-c),
> > Paste (C-v)
>
> This is because (menu-bar-enable-clipboard) is added to mac-win.el in
> order to solve the following problem:
>
>     [osx] edit/paste menu item always disabled
>     http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2004-10/msg00101.html
>
> We can find the same line in both x-win.el and w32-win.el, and the
> shortcuts of the menu items in question are not changed by (cua-mode
> 1) at least on the X11 build.

cua-mode was just an example of a mode which provides keybindings for 
copy and paste functions.

The problem was that (global-set-key [(alt c)] 'kill-ring-save) and 
(global-set-key [(alt v)] 'yank) used to cause A-c and A-v to show up 
as shortcuts in the menu.  After the changes however, the keybindings 
shown on the menu are <cut>, <paste> etc.  Of course there are no such 
keys on the Mac keyboard, so this might be a little confusing.

Looking at menu-bar.el and the definition of menu-bar-enable-clipboard 
suggests that what I need to do now is
(define-key global-map [(alt x)] 'clipboard-kill-region)
(define-key global-map [(alt c)] 'clipboard-kill-ring-save)
(define-key global-map [(alt p)] 'clipboard-yank))

but this seems to have no effect.


> I'm not familiar with cua-mode, but
> does that affect cut/copy/paste operations?

Depends what you mean by "affect".

<QUOTE>
;;This package allows the C-z, C-x, C-c, and C-v keys to be
;; bound appropriately according to the Motif/Windows GUI, i.e.
;;      C-z     -> undo
;;      C-x     -> cut
;;      C-c     -> copy
;;      C-v     -> paste

It also provides keybindings for the register and rectangle functions