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<p dir="auto">On 30 Sep 2020, at 11:39, Robert Brenstein wrote:</p>
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<div class="plaintext"><blockquote><p dir="auto">He meant that to produce the left square bracket on the German keyboard, he needs to press alt-5 (option-5 if you will). So how do you produce a shortcut that itself requests the alt key to be hold.</p>
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<p dir="auto">My point is that 'cmd' and 'alt' are usually not the same key. Maybe a picture of the left-side modifier keys (other than shift) of my old MacBook explains what I mean better:</p>
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<p dir="auto">Note that 'option' is also labeled 'alt' and 'command' is marked '⌘' (an ancient artifact descended from the "Open Apple" key on Apple ][ keyboards) and on newer Mac US-English keyboards, option is marked '⌥' to match the symbols used in menus.</p>
<p dir="auto">The indentation menu commands are ⌘-[ and ⌘-] so on a keyboard with a ⌘ (command/cmd) key and an alt (option/⌥) key where you need alt-5 to get [, 'decrease indentation' would be ⌘-alt-5</p>
<p dir="auto">Some keyboards have "Meta" or "Windows" keys that might get mapped to ⌘. Mapping BOTH ⌘ and ⌥ to a single 'alt' key would be intrinsically broken, because they have always served distinct purposes.</p>
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<div class="plaintext"><blockquote><p dir="auto">Will the alt key be recognized doubly, once to produce the bracket and then to produce the shortcut? I gather he has to remap these shortcuts to completely other keys.</p>
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<p dir="auto">It is essential that you have distinct mappings for the distinct modifier keys.</p>
<p dir="auto">-- <br>
Bill Cole<br>
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