On Thu, 31 Mar 2022 08:36:18 -0500 Perry Smith via X11-users <x11-users@lists.apple.com> wrote:
> I?m no expert either but my **guess** is the key stroke is converted > into an "X11 Event? (I think they are called) on the local side by > the X11 server ? which would be XQuartz in this case. Yes, the X11 server running on your Mac is handling all UI events, both keyboard and display. If you have a doubt, see what xev tells you. ISTR the XQuartz preferences used to let you choose whether Meta was invoked by Command or Option, but I don't see it now in my version. I use emacs all day long on remote machines via XQuartz. I just use Command for Meta because defaults. The only real inconvenience is that Option+Key sometimes means something to MacOS, and isn't transmitted by X11 to the client. In those cases, I use Esc as my Meta proxy, if you see what I mean. In case you haven't already, you want "Meta Sends Escape" in xterm, too, so that Command+b moves back one word in readline. As a practical matter, I don't see what you can do better than adapt to the system you're using. As a technical matter, it's just a small matter of programming. Every keystroke sends something. Emacs "arbitrarily" assigns the "A" event to "A", and C-a to "move-beginning-of-line". Nothing but time and patience prevents you from mapping all the graphical-character events produced by Option+Key to their accustomed Command+Key functions). Or you could change the X11 keyboard map with xmodmap. That would change what emacs receives, so you wouldn't have to change emacs. To me, that sounds like a perfect GSoC project. For someone else. HTH. --jkl _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. X11-users mailing list (X11-users@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/x11-users/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
