Re: A proposal for the keybindings issue
Re: A proposal for the keybindings issue
- Subject: Re: A proposal for the keybindings issue
- From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 21:28:04 +0100 (CET)
+ 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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