#18 Option "cmd == META"

[Anonymous]

I would very much like to see a feature from
NiftyTelnet-SSH v.3 in MacSSH: A preferences
option to use the Apple/cmd key as META key
"for us XEmacs users", effectively
disabling the menu shortcuts that way.

[Jean-Pierre Stierlin]

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An option like this already exists, not for command, but
for either option, or control-command.
Edit->Terminals->select one->Edit->Keyboard tab.
You can also disable the menu shortcuts in the
Edit->Preferences dialog.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Using "option" for meta is out of the question for
people with int'l keyboards (think "[]{}|~").

"cmd-option" is still annoying
especially when you switch between MacOS and (say)
NetBSD/mac68k where cmd == meta in X11.

[Jean-Pierre Stierlin]

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ok, then try this pre-fc3:
<http://www.macssh.com/download/MacSSHPPC-pre-f
c3.sit>
and let me know how it works.

[Hauke Fath]

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"Interesting"... First of all, many thanks for the quick
reply.
On a tibook (System 9.2.2) with German QWERTZ keyboard, cmd
comes over as ctrl. Now, the interesting part is that this
"2nd ctrl layer", unlike the "original" one, uses a slightly
modified key map. E.g., the "<>" key which is between the
left shift key and the Y key (that would be Z on a US kbd) is
just that with ctrl, but "\^" (probably US layout) with the
cmd aka 2nd ctrl key.

-- All that seen in xemacs 21 on Solaris 8.