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Re: MacOS X: Not all Alt keys are equal?
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Lars-Johan Liman |
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Re: MacOS X: Not all Alt keys are equal? |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:15:54 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (darwin) |
Peter,
Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE:
> In the context mentioned I think pressing the right alt key would not
> help producing the \.
That's what I thought.
> It's default or STANDARD value is that of the corresponding left key.
That's what I thought too. But as I said, I want the left one to be
"meta", and the right one to be "none" (= switch layout to alternate).
> I have set my only alt key to "(quote) none" (original value was meta)
> and let the cmd key be super, and also the remaining others be what
> they are. This gives me the opportunity to use the alt key as
> introductory key to switch the keyboard layout from the visible to the
> "alternate" layout, i.e. that, which produces \, {, }, «, », etc.
Hmm. Well the problem manifests itself when you have two Alt keys, and
want to make them do different things.
</me sends a longing thought to xmodmap ... ;-)>
Cheers,
/Liman