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bitbucket

Reputation: 1171

In Eclipse Emacs mode, is there any way to remap or add the Alt key to the Esc key?

I'm used to the Emacs use of Esc for Metakey. In eclipse may I change the Esc key to be the Alt key?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 447

Answers (2)

Raf
Raf

Reputation: 11

On windows plateform you can use AutoHotkey to remap Esc to Alt

Just add this to your Autohotkey script :

#IfWinActive ahk_class SWT_Window0
$Esc::Alt
#IfWinActive

you may need to adjust the first line to match the class of your Eclipse window (use the windows spy tool provided in Autohokey).

Upvotes: 1

Tassilo Horn
Tassilo Horn

Reputation: 821

Nope, I don't think there's a way to do that. The relevant Eclipse UI docs state:

The recognized modifiers keys are M1, M2, M3, M4, ALT, COMMAND, CTRL, and SHIFT.

ESC is only a "normal" key. Emacs handles ESC specifically, so that it acts like kind of a modifier.

Upvotes: 1

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