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bug#14736: 24.3; "Insert" key results in question mark mouse cursor and
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#14736: 24.3; "Insert" key results in question mark mouse cursor and does not send a keyboard event |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 08:02:14 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org> writes:
> Kumaran Santhanam <kumaran@alumni.stanford.org> writes:
>
>> On Mac OS X, the "Insert" key on external keyboards is mapped to
>> "Help". Therefore, when the "Insert" key is pressed, the mouse cursor
>> turns into a question mark and the key is not passed to Emacs to
>> process. This is problematic because users may have keybindings from
>> Linux and Windows that make use of the "Insert" key.
>
> Confirmed as still present in Emacs 25.
>
> Is there some use for the "help" key and question-mark pointer?
>
> Interestingly, it looks like on recent Apple keyboards "insert" is
> replaced with fn instead of help.
I don't have an external keyboard for my Apple laptop, so I can't test
myself. Is this issue still present in newer versions of Emacs/Macos?
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- bug#14736: 24.3; "Insert" key results in question mark mouse cursor and does not send a keyboard event,
Lars Ingebrigtsen <=