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Using function keys as "sticky" modifier keys
If your workflow is:
Press and release F8
Press and release s, expect it to trigger the binding for s-s
Whatever key you press afterwards does not have the s modifier unless you press F8 again
then ...
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Emacs super key modifier on Caps Lock in Windows native and Cygwin emacs-w32
I feel your pain. Coming up with a decent hyper/super key binding which will work across all my keyboards is an ongoing search, especially given the widely varying laptop keyboard layouts.
I dislike ...
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Open several files in a specifc layout with a shortcut
It will be necessary to decide ahead of time what windows/buffers will be A, B and C. The alist argument for the left window-width can be adjusted to taste -- it is presently hard-coded to 70. This ...
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M-< and M-> don't appear to work
Sounds like either something has bound those keys to some other commands, or else emacs is actually seeing something other the M-< and M-> when you press the keys on your keyboard. To find out ...
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Typing composite characters (e.g. diacritics) in emacs
This is a Dead Keys problem, and it's mentioned in the Emacs wiki.
All the workarounds explained there solve the issue.
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My left alt key (OS X) does not work as Meta key in Emacs (terminal)
After making sure the right alt key is setup in the Terminal app as @junnu suggested, you can do the following to free up the right option key for the special characters you need:
(setq mac-right-...
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I want to type special Spanish characters in Emacs on a MacBook Pro keyboard ... but I have no clue where to start
Short answer: C-u C\ spanish-prefix RET. The characters you mentioned can then be typed as
~? => ¿
~! => ¡
Long answer: read the emacs documentation starting at Language Environments, plus the ...
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Capital A Meaning in Emacs Syntax?
Emacs recognizes 5 modifier keys (arguably 6 depending on how you feel about Shift):
<Control> (C-), <Meta> (M-), <Super> (s-), <Hyper> (H-), and <Alt> (A-).
This ...
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Accessing square bracket in Emacs with German Keyboard on Macbook with OS X
I have run into this issue before - also trying to use Emacs on OS X with a German keyboard for (C/C++) programming. My solution to this issue was to use the Command key as Meta and pass Option ...
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How to remap the meta key on Linux?
The following elisp may help you out. Just add it to your config.
(setq x-meta-keysym 'super)
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How to preserve emacs key bindings when changing keyboard layout?
As far as I understand your question the key-translation-map seems like a good soultion for your problem. For example if you would like to have C-q acting like C-a as in your example, you would define ...
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Diacritic marks in emacs for macOS
But on macs keyboard it is no distinction between left and right option key ⌥ as it is in Win (Alt and Alt+Gr).
Yes, there is.
You have the variables ns-alternate-modifier and ns-right-alternate-...
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Generate dynamic keybindings depending on keyboard layout
This is not exactly a complete answer to your question, but it may help you as a starting point. My evil-colemak-basics provides Qwerty/Colemak best-of-both-worlds key bindings:
https://github.com/...
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Names of all the keymaps for multilanguage remapping purposes
The question is flawed:
A keymap does not necessarily have a name. A keymap can be a list - see the Elisp manual, node Format of Keymaps - and there need not be any name associated with the list.
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How to use the Insert key to toggle `overwrite-mode` when using a PC keyboard in OS X?
Placing the following snippet in user-init-file (~/.emacs.d/init.el in my case) worked for me. I also set ctrl-insert and shift-insert to copy/paste.
(when (eq system-type 'darwin)
;; when using ...
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Accessing square bracket in Emacs with German Keyboard on Macbook with OS X
To change the meta key you can look at the variables ns-command-modifier, ns-option-modifier, ns-control-modifier, ns-right-command-modifier, ns-right-option-modifier, ns-right-control-modifier. On ...
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How to insert special characters not on a US/UK keyboard?
I have the following in my init.el to use the italian layout with Mac OS
;; Command key is Meta
(setq ns-command-modifier 'meta)
;; Option (alt) key used for special characters (e.g. []@#{}...)
(setq ...
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I want to type special Spanish characters in Emacs on a MacBook Pro keyboard ... but I have no clue where to start
I just found out this is how you do it: (setq ns-alternate-modifier nil)
I was instead using the insert-chart bound to C-x 8 which is very painful
edit: thank you all for the interest xD
I'm native ...
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German input method: missing ' (single quote)
Created my own layout, german-t1, simply by adding to ~/.emacs:
;; T1 German keyboard layout without AltGR and without <> (see
;; <https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/47487/5327>):
(quail-...
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US-Intl layout EU users of Emacs in WSL - how do you input those Alt-Gr characters?
Just found this issue, looking around the internet I came across this page, and the solution is at the bottom, basically you have to set the keyboard mapping with the following command on the Debian ...
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Keyboard map in X version of Emacs not respecting system map
Odd solution. In Manjaro I'd inadvertently set the Japanese keyboard layout. X emacs was respecting that setting, whereas the console version, and all other X apps were perhaps following locale.
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Bind Meta key to Command on Mac Without Altering its System-wide Behaviour
In non-windows mode, changes to ns-* variables (such as ns-alternate-modifier and ns-command-modifier) are ignored. In particular, if the -nw option is passed as argument to emacs, the logic that ...
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How does one type <C-menu> or <next> on a keyboard (in Emacs)?
Probably depends on your keyboard. I have a typical US PC keyboard. I don't know whether I have a <menu> key (for C-<menu>). But the <next> key is the key labeled Page Down.
To see ...
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In MacOS, is there any way to have native Mac layout for ‘option-something’ special symbols in quoted-insert?
As I learned that Emacs enters native special symbols if Option isn't mapped to Meta, I went ahead and made a wrapper for quoted-insert that does the unmapping:
(defun my/quoted-insert-wrapper (arg)
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My left alt key (OS X) does not work as Meta key in Emacs (terminal)
http://osxdaily.com/2013/02/01/use-option-as-meta-key-in-mac-os-x-terminal/
Open Terminal and pull down the primary Terminal menu to choose “Preferences”
Under the “Settings” section, find your ...
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Keyboard layout changed but I don't know why
You can use C-h l (command view-lossage) to see the last few key sequences (including mouse actions) that you used, plus their associated commands.
C-h k C-h l tells you:
view-lossage is an ...
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Fix org-mode agenda viewing of stuck projects with UK keyboard #
You can use M-3 instead of # as part of a key definition. Use something like this in your .emacs:
;; fix agenda command with # for UK keyboard
(define-key org-mode-map (kbd "C-c a M-3") 'org-agenda-...
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Use xcape-like Control_L=Escape only in Emacs evil insert-mode?
I found a workaround, inspired by the comment by Håkon Hægland in Leave evil insert mode with control key
First make a keycode for VoidSymbol with xmodmap (xcape can only work on keysyms that have ...
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any 'binding-change-hook'?
I am not aware of any hook before/after new key-bindings but you can add advices to define-key. define-key is the low-level function called by other functions like global-set-key, local-set-key, or ...
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