Change meta and control keys in emacs for mac keyboard

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There are several things I'd like to do:

  • leave the left control key as is
  • map the left command key so it's a meta key
  • map the right command key so it's a meta key
  • map the right up arrow so it's a control key

I know the three map commands need to be of the form:

(define-key KEYMAP KEY DEF)

Also I know my .emacs file located in my home directory. However, I'm not sure how to define these three values or if I have the right idea.

One other thing, I installed emacs 24, but I noticed that mac OSX seems to also come with emacs 22. I'd like both to function the same. Is there a way to make sure the key mappings match? Or even better replace emacs 22 with 24 in the terminal?

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2 Answers

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Emacs has a numbers of mac specific settings, including something similar what you ask for. They are included in the group 'Ns'.

use: M-x customize-group RET ns RET

I'm not really sure if left and right is treated separately. So maybe in addition you might want to install keyremap4macbook. This can do some remapping - even on application specific basis.

Personally I found it usefull to use the fn key as wildcard e.g. I remap left alt to fn and tell emacs to treat fn as meta.

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Never figured this out. My solution was to switch out keyboards so now I have my command keys mapped to meta and my alt keys mapped to control.