Re: MacOS X: Not all Alt keys are equal?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 25.03.2011 um 16:15 schrieb Lars-Johan Liman:

> Hmm. Well the problem manifests itself when you have two Alt keys, and
> want to make them do different things.

My old PowerBook has two cmd keys. The keyboard controller treats them  
as one. So neither in X11 nor in Quartz/Aqua is a difference and so  
setting an ns-left-command-modifier is pointless.

You can try Peter Maurer's Key Codes application (http://www.petermaurer.de/nasi.php?section=keycodes 
) to see whether the two keys are really independent.

> </me sends a longing thought to xmodmap ... ;-)>


It'll fail when both keys are one... Did you try any X11 variant of  
GNU Emacs? There exist quite useful X11 installations for Mac OS X.

A quite useful Emacs variant is the "AppKit" Emacs, based on GNU Emacs  
23.3 and patch files:   /ftp:anonymous@ftp.math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp:/ 
emacs. Cmd is Meta, except for some sane combinations that are caught  
by the OS, and alt is just alt. Super and Hyper modifier can be set.

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Greetings

  Pete

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