I should also mention that this behavior can't be overriden by adding Meta shortcuts to my .bind file, so even the solution originally proposed (adding each Meta- shortcut to the bind file) won't work. That is, if I assign a shortcut to "M-m" and then try to use Option-m from LyX, it still inserts a \mu character, following the operating system's "special character" behavior.
Charles On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 11:16, charles reid <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>> >>> >> >
