Re: Swap control and command keys on a mac

Benno Schulenberg <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Jun 2022 16:12:37 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.editors.nano.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Op 27-06-2022 om 11:03 schreef Robin Twiggs:
> I've managed to get my Mac keyboard to behave as close as possible to my Linux
> Mint with biggest change being swapping control and command keys on the Mac.
> 
> Nano, in this environment, now expects command key presses in place of control key.

I have no idea what the Command key does.  Does it behave like the Alt key
on Linux?  Nano knows only Control and Alt; it has no knowledge of Command.

> If I could swap control key and command key in nanorc I would have nano behaving
> as I need.
> 
> Can this be set?

If the Command key behaves like Alt, then you can achieve the swap by
rebinding all the keystrokes: bind M-U paste main, bind ^U undo main,
and so on and so on.

Benno
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