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bug#44973: Add a macOS global hotkey function
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#44973: Add a macOS global hotkey function |
Date: |
Tue, 08 Dec 2020 21:39:41 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
j@mremus.net writes:
> MacOS makes it very difficult to assign global hotkeys to focus
> Emacs. For example, if I'm in another program, and I want to
> launch/focus Emacs with "Alt-SPC", it can't just be set in the system
> preferences; I'd need to use a 3rd-party program like skhd.
>
> Would it be possible to add a function or hook to Emacs which registers one or
> more global hotkeys (using addGlobalMonitorForEventsMatchingMask), and then
> when the hotkey is pressed, run an elisp function?
[...]
> Even if it's rare for Emacs to implement an OS-specific feature, there
> is some precedent on Windows. If you look at w32-register-hot-keys,
> it's similar to, but different from my request.
Sure, I think that makes sense. Would it be possible for you to work up
a patch that adds this functionality?
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- bug#44973: Add a macOS global hotkey function,
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