TeXmacs not recognizing Meta Key on Windows 10 keyboard

tmDante · December 7, 2021, 2:47am

Hi,
From what I understand the Meta key is supposed to be the Windows key on a Windows computer.
I can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong, but TexMacs is not recognizing the Meta key.

I’ve tried changing the edit->preferences keyboard options to no avail.
I would like to right align some line items in an equation using the keyboard shortcuts.

Would anyone know what to do?

pireddag · December 7, 2021, 9:00am

Please try the esc key (on Windows).

tmDante · December 7, 2021, 12:49pm

thank you, it worked.

darcy · January 22, 2022, 11:17am

For this issue, can we change emacs:meta from meta to altcmd?

github.com

texmacs/texmacs/blob/master/TeXmacs/progs/texmacs/keyboard/prefix-kbd.scm#L33


;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;; Emacs prefixes
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;


(when (like-emacs?)


(kbd-wildcards pre
  ("emacs" "C-" #t)
  ("emacs:contextual" "emacs c")
  ("emacs:prefix" "emacs x")
  ("emacs:meta" "M-" #t)
  ("std" "C-" #t)
  ("cmd" "A-")
  ("altcmd" "M-")
  ("special" "M-C-")
  ("extra" "M-A-")
  ("accent" "M-" #t)
  ("copyto" "M-W")
  ("cutto" "emacs W")
  ("pastefrom" "emacs Y")
  ("structured:cmd" "C-")

vac · January 23, 2022, 7:43am

Hi pireddag, I have the same question and find your answer.

My intended solution is to map WIN key to META key, is it possible by adding one line in somewhere like ~/.TeXmacs/progs/my-init-texmacs.scm? And what is the correct code?

Best,
JW

pireddag · January 23, 2022, 1:36pm

Sorry, I don’t know how to do that off the top of my head. Let us see if someone knows immediately. If not, we may try to figure it out.

darcy · January 23, 2022, 2:08pm

Try Mogan v1.0 beta:

Here is the pull request I made to change the default meta key:

Emacs is also using Alt as meta key on Windows.

And Mogan can be used along with GNU TeXmacs. It is a GNU TeXmacs distribution.

vac · January 25, 2022, 10:20am

Thank you @darcy
According to your modification given in https://github.com/XmacsLabs/mogan/commit/e4fb307f4941696c2d6ea1d4979ba6d1e742d44d, I’ve successfully remapped meta key to alt key.