Re: Meta key inserts symbols on Mac

2011-08-06 Thread bart deruyter
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

Re: Meta key inserts symbols on Mac

2011-08-06 Thread charles reid
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

Re: Meta key inserts symbols on Mac

2011-08-06 Thread charles reid
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

Re: Meta key inserts symbols on Mac

2011-08-06 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 06.08.2011 um 01:17 schrieb charles reid: 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

Re: Meta key inserts symbols on Mac

2011-08-06 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 06.08.2011 um 19:23 schrieb charles reid: 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

Re: Meta key inserts symbols on Mac

2011-08-06 Thread charles reid
Ah, ok, thanks, I missed that M to A change mentioned in mac.bind somehow. I was defining M-m in the bind file, and mistaking that to mean Option-m, but once I defined A-m it worked as expected by using Option-m, and it overrode the system's special character behavior. Thanks a million!

Re: Meta key inserts symbols on Mac

2011-08-06 Thread bart deruyter
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

Re: Meta key inserts symbols on Mac

2011-08-06 Thread charles reid
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

Re: Meta key inserts symbols on Mac

2011-08-06 Thread charles reid
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

Re: Meta key inserts symbols on Mac

2011-08-06 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 06.08.2011 um 01:17 schrieb charles reid: 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

Re: Meta key inserts symbols on Mac

2011-08-06 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 06.08.2011 um 19:23 schrieb charles reid: 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

Re: Meta key inserts symbols on Mac

2011-08-06 Thread charles reid
Ah, ok, thanks, I missed that M to A change mentioned in mac.bind somehow. I was defining M-m in the bind file, and mistaking that to mean Option-m, but once I defined A-m it worked as expected by using Option-m, and it overrode the system's special character behavior. Thanks a million!

Re: Meta key inserts symbols on Mac

2011-08-06 Thread bart deruyter
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

Re: Meta key inserts symbols on Mac

2011-08-06 Thread charles reid
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

Re: Meta key inserts symbols on Mac

2011-08-06 Thread charles reid
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

Re: Meta key inserts symbols on Mac

2011-08-06 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 06.08.2011 um 01:17 schrieb charles reid: > 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 >

Re: Meta key inserts symbols on Mac

2011-08-06 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 06.08.2011 um 19:23 schrieb charles reid: > 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

Re: Meta key inserts symbols on Mac

2011-08-06 Thread charles reid
Ah, ok, thanks, I missed that "M" to "A" change mentioned in mac.bind somehow. I was defining "M-m" in the bind file, and mistaking that to mean "Option-m", but once I defined "A-m" it worked as expected by using "Option-m," and it overrode the system's special character behavior. Thanks a

Meta key inserts symbols on Mac

2011-08-05 Thread charles reid
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

Meta key inserts symbols on Mac

2011-08-05 Thread charles reid
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

Meta key inserts symbols on Mac

2011-08-05 Thread charles reid
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