Hi Bart - Thanks for your suggestion, but (no surprise here) this is yet another of Apple's regrettable design decision that users have no ability to easily change. The system preferences have no controls for this behavior. There is probably some obscure plist file somewhere that controls this behavior, but multiple Google searches have been fruitless. Does anyone has suggestions as to how to change this at the operating system level?
Emacs gets around this by providing settings (at the Emacs level) for overriding this special character behavior of the option key (see http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MetaKeyProblems#toc15). Is it possible LyX should do something similar? How are other Mac users dealing with this? Has this been discussed before? (I was unable to find anything in the mailing list archive). I recently switched to LyX 2.0 and this was one of the first things I noticed. Any ideas or suggestions would be much appreciated. Charles On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 00:19, bart deruyter <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > if I understand it right, you want to modify the mac keybindings. These > you won't find in lyx of course, but in your mac keyboard preferences. > Perhaps there is an option to allow a program override the mac shortcuts? I > actually really can't say, 'cause I use linux here. Otherwise you really > will have to modify each shortcut you need to change, in your mac or in lyx > (preferences-Editing-Shortcuts). > > grtz, > > Bart > http://www.bartart3d.be/ > > > > 2011/8/6 charles reid <[email protected]> > >> Hi all - >> >> I'm using the latest binary of LyX available for Mac, 2.0, and I've been >> struggling to fix an annoying behavior. In Mac, you can insert symbols (such >> as \mu) by pressing Option+M, or Option+(some letter). However, this >> conflicts with LyX's keyboard shortcuts, e.g. Option+M should allow me to do >> some math things like insert pairs of \left \right parentheses. My question >> is, how can I override the default Mac behavior of inserting greek symbols >> when I use Meta+(letter) in favor of the normal LyX behavior? I've been >> unable to find any solutions, and the only one I can think of is redefining >> every single Meta+(letter) combination, which seems like a lot of >> work/trouble to solve a basic problem. >> >> >> Charles >> >> >
