Re: Meta and Super on the Mac under X11 (XQuartz)

Yes, but that's not the problem here. It's been so long since I've used a .Xmodmap file on a Mac that I don't even have one in my backups that I can locate. However, that may well be a clue to getting where I need to be. By actual count, my keybindings file has 32 key bindings that use the hyper key, and 28 that use the super key, like these: (define-key global-map '[(hyper o) (hyper l)] 'linux-notebook-entry) (define-key global-map '[(super a)] 'auto-fill-mode) The problem is that at the moment no key on my keyboard generates stuff that XEmacs recognizes as either hyper or super. Since you *didn't* encounter one with Ctrl on the middle row? You mean it's always on that key next to the 'A' key? Surely you mean the other way around? That key is bound to Caps Lock on every PC keyboard and Mac by default, and has been for many years. Caps Lock is perhaps the single most useless function on the keyboard. I'm not saying it's never necessary, but why it should be tied to the most accessible mode key on the keyboard has always been beyond me. I'm good at typing like the wind while holding the Shift key down for those rare occasions I need to type things in all upper case. Back in the mid-eighties, when GUIs were just becoming available on Unix systems (because of X11, as I recall), our whole engineering office at Motorola Computer Group used a kind of networking graphics terminal. You'd boot the terminal with a long string of typed in arguments that included IP addresses where to load some software and where to get a login, and these were provided by server systems. On these terminals the control key was on that key left of the 'A' key. And had keycaps to match. As an Emacs user, I liked it that way. Fortunately, on both Unix and Linux systems and on Macs, too, it's configurable. Any stranger who sits at my computer would be confused, but only one stranger has ever tried, who immediately found himself unable to do anything. :-) So anyhow, I still have no solution for this problem of generating Super and Hyper codes. -- Lynn David Newton Columbus, Ohio neologisticsediting.com lynndavidnewton.com _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta