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"Option as Meta" for OS X

Open pzich opened this issue 12 years ago • 0 comments

One commonly used setting in Terminal on OS X is to use the option key as the meta key (see below).

Use option as meta key

This should be easy to add as an option to the Terminal object by creating a flag like optionAsMeta and changing (!isMac && ev.altKey) || (isMac && ev.metaKey) in Terminal.prototype.keyDown to (!isMac && ev.altKey) || (isMac && (this.optionAsMeta ? ev.altKey : ev.metaKey)).

Let me know if you'd prefer this as a pull request.

pzich avatar Mar 27 '13 03:03 pzich