GNU bug report logs - #51449
28.0.50; iso-transl overwrites alt key bindings

Previous Next

Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Mark Bestley" <gnu <at> bestley.co.uk>

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 21:02:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Found in version 28.0.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Full log

Message #16 received at 51449 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Mark Bestley" <gnu <at> bestley.co.uk>
To: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 51449 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#51449: 28.0.50; iso-transl overwrites alt key bindings
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 09:12:54 +0100

On Thu, 28 Oct 2021, at 08:12, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>
> iso-transl is preloaded now.  But I don't think I understand why it
> gets in your way: can't you unbind the bindings that iso-transl does,
> if you have no use for them, or rebind them after changing Alt to be a
> modifier key if you do have use for iso-transl?
>
> (Caveat: I don't use a Mac, so I may be missing some Mac-specific
> issue here.)

In scratch buffer on emacs - Q


(setq  mac-command-modifier 'alt)

(global-set-key (kbd "A-c")  'info)
(global-set-key (kbd "A-z")  'info)

Then A-z runs info but A-c just inserts ยข

-- 
Mark
This bug report was last modified 2 years and 302 days ago.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.