meta key switch

mac-switch-meta.el

;; Keybonds
(global-set-key [(hyper a)] 'mark-whole-buffer)
(global-set-key [(hyper v)] 'yank)
(global-set-key [(hyper c)] 'kill-ring-save)
(global-set-key [(hyper s)] 'save-buffer)
(global-set-key [(hyper l)] 'goto-line)
(global-set-key [(hyper w)]
                (lambda () (interactive) (delete-window)))
(global-set-key [(hyper z)] 'undo)

;; mac switch meta key
(defun mac-switch-meta nil 
  "switch meta between Option and Command"
  (interactive)
  (if (eq mac-option-modifier nil)
      (progn
	(setq mac-option-modifier 'meta)
	(setq mac-command-modifier 'hyper)
	)
    (progn 
      (setq mac-option-modifier nil)
      (setq mac-command-modifier 'meta)
      )
    )
  )

Thanks. Very useful.

Is there any possibility to avoid modifying the behavior of the right option key so that I can enter "[]{}" when writing in emacs ?
I tried (setq ns-right-alternate-modifier nil), but it doesn't function

@samspo this mac port doesn't use the ns-* variables and the mac-* variables don't include a right option at the moment. I'm working on a patch for that.

@bartebee Thank you for your answer.

@bartlebee I'd also love to see the ability to have left option work as meta, while right being good old option. I have so many keybindings using super...

+1 for (setq ns-right-alternate-modifier nil)

@samspo In the meantime I hard-wire those keys see https://gist.github.com/meeiw/1772649

I wanna use command+s to save file or command+q to quit emacs
Then how can I set the command key to its default role?
I set (setq mac-command-modifier nil)
It has no effect

@bartlebee tried this out and found it to be snappy. also like how text is rendered. only thing keeping me from switching full-time is the lack of right-left modifier keys... too many hypers and super keybindings with stubborn muscle memory.

nice work though a+

I've been using this for a while, so much that I forgot about the setting of mac-option-modifier and was wondering why a Service that I have enabled would not work. Would it be possible that when a Hyper key combination is not matched by emacs that it could be passed up?

@FeiSun have you found a solution? I am looking for something similar...

@FeiSun @yyz1989 AFAICT there's no way to fully enable the default command-key behaviors, but you can add the ones you need to the snippet above. For example, (global-set-key [(hyper q)] 'save-buffers-kill-emacs) will make cmd-q quit emacs

Not sure when/what emacs version this was added, but something like this now works:

       ;; Do not have emacs capture right alt/option key and command keys
       (setq ns-right-command-modifier 'none)   ;; original value is 'left'
       (setq ns-right-alternate-modifier 'none) ;; original value is 'left'
       ;;(setq ns-right-option-modifier nil)      ;; alias for ns-right-alternate-modifier

@idcrook I don't know about you, but for my Emacs Mac Port these ns-* commands are still not available. However, for everyone searching to get something like that to work, there exists now a mac-right-{alternate|command}-modifier command!

I am sorry, but how do you use this?
I included the contents of the file in the beginning of this thread in my setup but I still can't have them swapped.
I am on Catalina by the way. I am also using terminal mode (emacs -nw)

@hisnawi This setup does not work for emacs -nw, since it is your terminal emulator(iTerm2, Terminal.app etc) who controls the cmd and option key behavior.