Tjyylli

Man transported from Alternate World into ours by a Neutrino Detector

Compensation for working overtime on Saturdays

My boss doesn't want me to have a side project

Is a distribution that is normal, but highly skewed, considered Gaussian?

What is the difference between 'contrib' and 'non-free' packages repositories?

Find a path from s to t using as few red nodes as possible

How should I connect my cat5 cable to connectors having an orange-green line?

Calculate the Mean mean of two numbers

How does a dynamic QR code work?

Avoiding the "not like other girls" trope?

Could a dragon use its wings to swim?

Can I cast Thunderwave and be at the center of its bottom face, but not be affected by it?

How seriously should I take size and weight limits of hand luggage?

Small nick on power cord from an electric alarm clock, and copper wiring exposed but intact

"Eavesdropping" vs "Listen in on"

How to unfasten electrical subpanel attached with ramset

Gauss' Posthumous Publications?

Why did early computer designers eschew integers?

Direct Implications Between USA and UK in Event of No-Deal Brexit

Free fall ellipse or parabola?

Is it possible to create a QR code using text?

Early programmable calculators with RS-232

logical reads on global temp table, but not on session-level temp table

What does this strange code stamp on my passport mean?

How do I keep Mac Emacs from trapping M-`?

3

I want to use the command key on my Mac as the meta key, so I customize ns-command-modifier. But I also want to still use Command-` to cycle through all the windows in Emacs - just like in all other Mac apps.

If I unbind M-`, then I just get an error that there is no binding for that key. I want to somehow tell emacs not to trap that key at all.

There must be a solution because Command-Tab works whether or not the command key is set to be meta. But Command-` does not.

key-bindings osx keymap

share|improve this question

edited 5 hours ago

Gilles♦

13.6k43575

asked 7 hours ago

dk.dk.

1161

New contributor

dk. is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.

add a comment | 

3

I want to use the command key on my Mac as the meta key, so I customize ns-command-modifier. But I also want to still use Command-` to cycle through all the windows in Emacs - just like in all other Mac apps.

If I unbind M-`, then I just get an error that there is no binding for that key. I want to somehow tell emacs not to trap that key at all.

There must be a solution because Command-Tab works whether or not the command key is set to be meta. But Command-` does not.

key-bindings osx keymap

share|improve this question

edited 5 hours ago

Gilles♦

13.6k43575

asked 7 hours ago

dk.dk.

1161

New contributor

dk. is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.

add a comment | 

I want to use the command key on my Mac as the meta key, so I customize ns-command-modifier. But I also want to still use Command-` to cycle through all the windows in Emacs - just like in all other Mac apps.

If I unbind M-`, then I just get an error that there is no binding for that key. I want to somehow tell emacs not to trap that key at all.

There must be a solution because Command-Tab works whether or not the command key is set to be meta. But Command-` does not.

key-bindings osx keymap

share|improve this question

edited 5 hours ago

Gilles♦

13.6k43575

asked 7 hours ago

dk.dk.

1161

New contributor

dk. is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.

share|improve this question

edited 5 hours ago

Gilles♦

13.6k43575

asked 7 hours ago

dk.dk.

1161

New contributor

dk. is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.

share|improve this question

edited 5 hours ago

Gilles♦

13.6k43575

asked 7 hours ago

dk.dk.

1161

New contributor

dk. is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.

edited 5 hours ago

Gilles♦

13.6k43575

edited 5 hours ago

Gilles♦

13.6k43575

asked 7 hours ago

dk.dk.

1161

New contributor

dk. is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.

asked 7 hours ago

dk.dk.

1161

1 Answer
1

active

oldest

votes

3

What's going on here is that ⌘⇥ is a low-level hotkey that can't be intercepted (a good thing, too, since it may be one of your only escape hatches if a full-screen game hangs, along with the force-quit ⌥⌘⎋ keystroke which is also immutable and uninterceptible).

⌘`, on the other hand, is a command that MacOS provides ordinary apps by default, but that can be reassigned or ignored completely. The way the Cocoa Emacs integration work is largely (though not entirely) by disabling Cocoa's free features (because they don't interact well with a lot of Emacs concepts) and then reintroducing the ones that made sense to the developers.

In some Mac-specific Emacs distributions, this includes window-cycling via ⌘`, but not in the stock version.

The good news is that, having already set up your modifier keys as you like, you can now just bind a key in the normal emacs way to the frame-cycling (Mac "windows" are Emacs "frames" while Emacs "windows" don't correspond to anything on the Mac exactly) command other-frame, ordinarily bound to C-x 5 o.

So try M-x global-set-key, return, M-`, other-frame, return. If that works, you can set up this keybind permanently in your init file(s), or whatever method you use (I don't presume to know since there are many takes on managing keybinds in Emacs, but if you don't know how, I can edit this to suggest one, just drop a comment).

share|improve this answer

answered 6 hours ago

TreyTrey

1919

add a comment | 

StackExchange.ready(function() {
var channelOptions = {
tags: "".split(" "),
id: "583"
};
initTagRenderer("".split(" "), "".split(" "), channelOptions);

StackExchange.using("externalEditor", function() {
// Have to fire editor after snippets, if snippets enabled
if (StackExchange.settings.snippets.snippetsEnabled) {
StackExchange.using("snippets", function() {
createEditor();
});
}
else {
createEditor();
}
});

function createEditor() {
StackExchange.prepareEditor({
heartbeatType: 'answer',
autoActivateHeartbeat: false,
convertImagesToLinks: false,
noModals: true,
showLowRepImageUploadWarning: true,
reputationToPostImages: null,
bindNavPrevention: true,
postfix: "",
imageUploader: {
brandingHtml: "Powered by u003ca class="icon-imgur-white" href="https://imgur.com/"u003eu003c/au003e",
contentPolicyHtml: "User contributions licensed under u003ca href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"u003ecc by-sa 3.0 with attribution requiredu003c/au003e u003ca href="https://stackoverflow.com/legal/content-policy"u003e(content policy)u003c/au003e",
allowUrls: true
},
onDemand: true,
discardSelector: ".discard-answer"
,immediatelyShowMarkdownHelp:true
});


}
});

dk. is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.

draft saved

draft discarded

Sign up or log in

StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});

Sign up using Google

Sign up using Facebook

Sign up using Email and Password

Post as a guest

Name

Email

Required, but never shown

StackExchange.ready(
function () {
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2femacs.stackexchange.com%2fquestions%2f48698%2fhow-do-i-keep-mac-emacs-from-trapping-m%23new-answer', 'question_page');
}
);

Post as a guest

Name

Email

Required, but never shown

3

What's going on here is that ⌘⇥ is a low-level hotkey that can't be intercepted (a good thing, too, since it may be one of your only escape hatches if a full-screen game hangs, along with the force-quit ⌥⌘⎋ keystroke which is also immutable and uninterceptible).

⌘`, on the other hand, is a command that MacOS provides ordinary apps by default, but that can be reassigned or ignored completely. The way the Cocoa Emacs integration work is largely (though not entirely) by disabling Cocoa's free features (because they don't interact well with a lot of Emacs concepts) and then reintroducing the ones that made sense to the developers.

In some Mac-specific Emacs distributions, this includes window-cycling via ⌘`, but not in the stock version.

The good news is that, having already set up your modifier keys as you like, you can now just bind a key in the normal emacs way to the frame-cycling (Mac "windows" are Emacs "frames" while Emacs "windows" don't correspond to anything on the Mac exactly) command other-frame, ordinarily bound to C-x 5 o.

So try M-x global-set-key, return, M-`, other-frame, return. If that works, you can set up this keybind permanently in your init file(s), or whatever method you use (I don't presume to know since there are many takes on managing keybinds in Emacs, but if you don't know how, I can edit this to suggest one, just drop a comment).

share|improve this answer

answered 6 hours ago

TreyTrey

1919

add a comment | 

3

What's going on here is that ⌘⇥ is a low-level hotkey that can't be intercepted (a good thing, too, since it may be one of your only escape hatches if a full-screen game hangs, along with the force-quit ⌥⌘⎋ keystroke which is also immutable and uninterceptible).

⌘`, on the other hand, is a command that MacOS provides ordinary apps by default, but that can be reassigned or ignored completely. The way the Cocoa Emacs integration work is largely (though not entirely) by disabling Cocoa's free features (because they don't interact well with a lot of Emacs concepts) and then reintroducing the ones that made sense to the developers.

In some Mac-specific Emacs distributions, this includes window-cycling via ⌘`, but not in the stock version.

The good news is that, having already set up your modifier keys as you like, you can now just bind a key in the normal emacs way to the frame-cycling (Mac "windows" are Emacs "frames" while Emacs "windows" don't correspond to anything on the Mac exactly) command other-frame, ordinarily bound to C-x 5 o.

So try M-x global-set-key, return, M-`, other-frame, return. If that works, you can set up this keybind permanently in your init file(s), or whatever method you use (I don't presume to know since there are many takes on managing keybinds in Emacs, but if you don't know how, I can edit this to suggest one, just drop a comment).

share|improve this answer

answered 6 hours ago

TreyTrey

1919

add a comment | 

What's going on here is that ⌘⇥ is a low-level hotkey that can't be intercepted (a good thing, too, since it may be one of your only escape hatches if a full-screen game hangs, along with the force-quit ⌥⌘⎋ keystroke which is also immutable and uninterceptible).

⌘`, on the other hand, is a command that MacOS provides ordinary apps by default, but that can be reassigned or ignored completely. The way the Cocoa Emacs integration work is largely (though not entirely) by disabling Cocoa's free features (because they don't interact well with a lot of Emacs concepts) and then reintroducing the ones that made sense to the developers.

In some Mac-specific Emacs distributions, this includes window-cycling via ⌘`, but not in the stock version.

The good news is that, having already set up your modifier keys as you like, you can now just bind a key in the normal emacs way to the frame-cycling (Mac "windows" are Emacs "frames" while Emacs "windows" don't correspond to anything on the Mac exactly) command other-frame, ordinarily bound to C-x 5 o.

So try M-x global-set-key, return, M-`, other-frame, return. If that works, you can set up this keybind permanently in your init file(s), or whatever method you use (I don't presume to know since there are many takes on managing keybinds in Emacs, but if you don't know how, I can edit this to suggest one, just drop a comment).

share|improve this answer

answered 6 hours ago

TreyTrey

1919

share|improve this answer

answered 6 hours ago

TreyTrey

1919

answered 6 hours ago

TreyTrey

1919

answered 6 hours ago

TreyTrey

1919