Jenny Harrison wrote:
On 9/18/07, Jacob Rus wrote:
I'm planning to someday turn my right ⌘ key into an ⎋ key. I've been too lazy so far to figure out how though.
Has anyone managed to make this swap with Ukelele? An obstruction I found is that left ⌘ and right ⌘ are linked together.
Well no, Ukelele can't handle modifier keys. So there are 2 other possible ways, but either is tricky.
Desp [figured out][1] that you could remap any of the modifiers to any other. So the first possibility is to map one of the ⌘ keys to something like "help", and then either a) make help do the thing you want, or b) figure a way to get the "help" key to trigger another key event. This has the downside of clobbering whatever the help key was otherwise going to do, but I think it's worth it.
So I may at some point just change all the completion commands, etc. to use the help key, and then devote my right ⌘ key to that.
[1]: http://desp.night.pl/keys.html
The [other way][2] is to muck with plist files in the keyboard driver itself. I haven't tried this, it looks a bit daunting, and I'd imagine it's a good way to panic your computer or make your keyboard stop working altogether if you screw something up too much, but it might work out. :)
[2]: http://www.snark.de/index.cgi/0007
-Jacob