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Re: A proposal for the keybindings issue



+ Merton Campbell Crockett <email@hidden>:

> Terminal.app does allow you to use Alt for Meta.

Indeed, so it does!  Now I'll be supremely confused.  Thanks.  8-)

> If you have Spaces enabled and press a Ctrl-numeric key combination,
> the key combination will not be passed to the window that currently
> has focus.   It will be intercepted by Spaces and focus will be
> shifted to the desktop corresponding to the numeric key pressed.

That can be changed in the Spaces preference pane.


> This raises the issue of inheritance in key bindings.  If you have
> enabled "Use Alt as meta key" in Terminal.app and invoke emacs at
> the terminal prompt, will you get the same behavior when using
> X11.app to open an xterm and invoke emacs from there?

The answer is no, and achieving consistency at this level is not going
to be an easy task, methinks.

- Harald
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References: 
 >Re: A proposal for the keybindings issue (From: "Nathaniel Gray" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: A proposal for the keybindings issue (From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <email@hidden>)
 >Re: A proposal for the keybindings issue (From: Merton Campbell Crockett <email@hidden>)



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