On Thu, 31 Mar 2022 17:29:38 -0500
Perry Smith via X11-users <x11-users@lists.apple.com> wrote:
> On this new Mac, the extreme lower left key has a world globe on it
> and ?fn?. This key appears to not create any X11 events at all.
Correct.
> That may be a macOS preference somewhere.
It's not. It could be, in the sense of it's a computer, and you can
program it. It's not, in the sense of how Apple chose to program the
computer. (fn might be under hardware control, though. I don't know.)
You are perhaps familiar with the Space Cadet keyboard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard
If Apple had had vision and courage, the XQuartz keyboard driver
could have supported
Control, Meta, Hyper, and Super
with
Control, Option, Command, and fn
and made using emacs a brand new adventure for a generation of
programmers. Instead, we have a withering Unix implementation
underlying a neglected OS provided almost contemptuously by a company
that knows its bread is buttered by phones and tablets.
Sorry. I didn't wake up this morning with an urgent need
to rain on your parade. You just happen to be highlighting my
disappointments as you travel the same road.
--jkl
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