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I'm trying to disable the command key when running emacs from the terminal. Whenever I mistakenly press CMD-V instead of ALT-V, the text from my Mac clipboard gets copied into the buffer. From related questions, I've tried adding setq mac-command-modifier 'none or 'meta and setq ns-command-modifier 'none to my .emacs file. There is no effect. How can I disable the command key in emacs? If I can't disable it, can I rebind CMD-V to do nothing?

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  • I don't use Emacs in the terminal, but this works in the GUI version to effectively disable Command+v by causing it to do nothing except execute the function ignore: (global-set-key [?\s-v] 'ignore)
    – lawlist
    Mar 30, 2018 at 21:17
  • Thanks for the suggestion, but adding this to my .emacs did nothing.
    – Dave Kielpinski
    Mar 31, 2018 at 0:29

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Isn't it just your terminal program pasting the text into the terminal? I'm not sure emacs can stop it.

If you are using iterm, one option is to create a separate profile for emacs, then under "Keys" bind command-V to ignore. You obviously would only want to run emacs under this profile to maintain normal pasting in other terminals.

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