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Reputation: 103

How to enter 3.Plane chars of the Neo2 keyboard layout in emacs running on Mac OS X?

I've got a problem on OS X with emacs, Karabiner and the Neo2 keyboard layout a alternativ German keyboard layout. The third and fifth keyboard plane entert with Capslock as mod key is not working.

My keyboard layout of choice is Neo2, I set it up, on the Mac im switching to, using jgosmanns neo2-layout-osx from GitHub in combination with the suggested Karabiner and it's rules enabled.

On other Editors like TextEdit the fist 5 planes are working correctly, but on emacs the 3. and the 5. plane are not. I assume emacs uses somehow the Capslock key. Perhaps there is a similar thing to (setq ns-right-alternate-modifier 'none) which is needed to type characters like ~ or @ on a regular german keyboard layout.

Or there is a problem between Karabiner and emacs, since Karabiner is needed to enter the third, fifth and sixth plane of Neo2 on OS X.

A minimal init.el: 

(setq inhibit-startup-message t)

(setq mac-function-modifier 'control
  mac-control-modifier 'control
  mac-option-modifier 'alt
  mac-command-modifier 'meta
  ns-right-alternate-modifier 'none)

How can I enable at least the 3. plane for the needed chars:

…_[]^!<>=& \/{}*?()-:@ #$|~+%"';

Upvotes: 5

Views: 273

Answers (2)

noc0lour
noc0lour

Reputation: 31

To make it work on a recent Apple Silicon MacbookPro with Emacs.app 27.2 it required setting only:

(setq mac-option-modifier 'none)

Otherwise the Mod3 keys would be recognized as Meta keys.

Upvotes: 3

Matthias Scholz
Matthias Scholz

Reputation: 111

Adding the following configuration option to Emacs did the trick for me:

  (setq ns-right-alternate-modifier nil)
  (setq ns-alternate-modifier 'meta)
  (global-set-key (kbd " ") " ")

Upvotes: 0

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