Am 20.02.2011 um 15:11 schrieb Pavel Sanda: > Stephan Witt wrote: >> One general question: why is Alt and Meta in LyX key bindings the same? > > because most of the keyboards nowadays dont have meta key? > i remember to see it on some sun keyboards in one of our uni labs > 10 years back. they looked archeological even at that time :)
If I remember right this was mapped to Super in xev. >> Which platform needs this mixup of things? > > i guess it will be only very specialized archs which know meta. > on pc based it will be emulated by alt today and with another key > at mac, so our usage of 'M' looks having only historical meaning. On a mac this is very bad. I can circumvent this with many many #ifdef's but it would be easier if Alt key makes AltModifier and Meta makes MetaModifier. Another ugly "solution" (but somewhat logical) would be to make MetaModifier coded as "A". I can understand it is a big big change to custom bind files. I don't had a really good idea until now... Stephan
