Re: Swap control and command keys on a mac

Thanks for this info.

On Tue, 28 June 2022, 06:20 DJ Chase, <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon Jun 27, 2022 at 10:28 AM EDT, Zach DeCook wrote:
> > On Mon Jun 27, 2022 at 10:12 AM EDT, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > >
> > > 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?
> > No, the command key is the "OS" key, often called "Super" or Mod4 in
> > Linux desktop environments.
>
> It’s not really like super; super isn’t used for regular shortcuts like
> control/command + c for copying. I’ve heard it best described as “a
> second control key to reserve the control shortcuts for the terminal”
> (so for example copy is command+c instead of control+shift+c).
>
> > Having the command key behave as meta (Alt) in your terminal emulator
> > would be something dependant on your terminal emulator or desktop
> > environment (not on Nano's configuration).
>
> I also use mac keys on linux and Nano works perfectly. I use kinto.sh to
> handle the mapping because it can change it depending on the app, so for
> example command in terminals is rebound to control+shift and control is
> just control.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> DJ Chase
> They, Them, Theirs
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