Re: A proposal for the keybindings issue
Re: A proposal for the keybindings issue
- Subject: Re: A proposal for the keybindings issue
- From: "Peter Eddy" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 16:16:51 -0500
On Nov 24, 2007 3:20 PM, Harald Hanche-Olsen <email@hidden> wrote:
> + "Peter Eddy" <email@hidden>:
> > Which emacs?
>
> Sorry, I should have specified that: GNU emacs. And since this is
> x11-users, I am not talking about carbon emacs og aquamacs, nor am I
> talking about emacs running inside a terminal. I am indeed talking
> about GNU emacs running as an X11 application. (BTW I am running
> carbon emacs locally on my Mac. I also regularly run emacsen on
> remote machines with my Mac as the display.)
Actually, I'm sorry. I was trying not very successfully to highlight
the issue of all the different emacs available on OSX, and the fact
that it's hard to get them all to use the same key mappings. This has
never been an issue for me on other platforms to the degree it has
been for me on OSX.
> > On Linux emacs usually does use alt for meta.
>
> By that, do you mean (a) emacs uses the modifier key that is either
> Alt_L or Alt_R according to X11 (and as reported by xev) as meta, or
> (b) that when you press the key marked Alt on the keyboard, emacs sees
> it as meta?
Yep, (b) is what I meant
> If (b), all that means is that X11 really sees the key marked Alt as
> meta. This is configured using xmodmap. If (a), I'll believe it when
> I see it (these strong words notwithstanding, I know I could be wrong).
I normally run remote emacs in terminal mode, within screen, on a
*local* xterm, because xterm has, so far, been the only terminal in
OSX that I've been able to make work (key mapping wise) just like the
other platforms (Linux, Solaris) I use. And besides, I really value
screen's ability to attach and detach terminals.
So I just tried this on the consoles (outside of X11) on both a Fedora
and a Debian machine. Both machine's PC Alt keys worked for Meta in
emacs. I can't ever remember having had to configure this to be so,
but it's possible I had way back when.
> > Which is (if I remember) what got emacs on remote machines working
> > with the Mac's Alt key.
>
> I would have to use keycode 66 for that, as this is what the Alt key
> produces on mine.
Yes, I forgot to mention that my fingers demand Alt keys immediately
on the left and right of the spacebar. I keep forgetting that the
Mac's ALt isn't there (I'm relatively new to Macs.) It's really
important to me that I don't have to switch key mappings depending on
which machine I'm using.
- Peter
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