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Add a macOS global hotkey function

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: j <at> mremus.net
Cc: 44973 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44973: Add a macOS global hotkey function
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2020 21:39:41 +0100

j <at> 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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