Re: MacOS (emacsformacosx) c-spc, does not run set-mark-command

[Tim Cross]

Diego Zamboni <diego@zzamboni.org> writes:

> I have seen differences in this behavior depending on the Emacs build. The 
> emacs-mac port (https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport)
> seems to intercept certain Mac-specific keybindings such as C-space and 
> C-M-space and gives them their "Mac meaning", e.g. to bring up Spotlight or 
> the
> symbol chooser. I could never figure out how to disable this behavior.
>
> Now I use emacs-plus (https://github.com/d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus) and 
> this no longer happens.
>

Normally, you need to disable those 'shortcuts' at the OS level i.e.
under the keyboard shortucts item in macOS preferences panel. Problem is
any macOS shortcut will grab the keys before Emacs sees them. Not sure
how the emacs-plus version gets around this.