Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Mac-o-philes... anyways to soft-map 'Fn' & 'ctlr' ?

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 4/2/07, Christian M. Cepel <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> Any free ways?  How about to turn the 'Enter Key' into a right 'Alt' or
> 'ctrl' key?

I haven't used this, but I have been told that this might be useful
for this and similar tasks:

http://doublecommand.sourceforge.net/

I think there may be a way to tweak a specific keymap file to achieve
this same result, but this is GPL and looks a lot friendlier than
hacking around with one of those resource files.

> I'm not entirely certain that Mac OS on a hardware driver level gives
> any distinction between a keypress of the Enter/Return and the Enter key
> to the right of the spacebar.

I think I would be surprised if this distinction were completely
missing, but it might not be easy to get at the user level.

> I'd be very happy if they would add a Shift-Delete option to the
> preferences panel  for a forward delete option (as well as any of these
> other desired re-mappings?

Well, Cocoa widgets so implement emacs-style editing keys, so cntrl-d
will get what you want there; maybe those things are remappable as
well.

> As a habitual keyboard-navigator, unix user, the Fn key in the bottom
> left causes me all sorts of woes when using unix or Virtual PC 7.

I know fn keys are remappable.

> I've looked in the past for this and nothing at all was at all
> appetizing (for either functionality or freeness).

I haven't tried it, but this might work for you.

jking

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