Allow Command+H to pass through to OS X (Emacs 23 Nightly)

[Brett Hoerner]

I'm using Emacs nightly Cocoa builds, when I check what is bound to
Command+H I get "A-h is undefined". I'd like for Emacs to "pass this
through" to OS X like other commands, so that it hides the
application.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 10.02.2009 um 23:45 schrieb Brett Hoerner:

> I'd like for Emacs to "pass this through" to OS X like other
> commands, so that it hides the
> application.

Did you find the preferences pane?

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[Brett Hoerner]

On Feb 10, 5:47 pm, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyba...@Web.DE> wrote:
> Did you find the preferences pane?

I've checked it, but I see nothing regarding this ... and I don't have
Command set to anything (I'm using Alt for Meta).

Prefs: http://i39.tinypic.com/n3r7yq.png

Brett

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Brett Hoerner <bretth...@gmail.com> writes:

Perhaps
(global-set-key (kbd "A-h") 'iconify-or-deiconify-frame)
would do?

Yes,
(global-set-key (kbd "A-h") 'iconify-or-deiconify-frame)
will do!

(global-set-key (kbd "A-h") 'iconify-or-deiconify-frame)
WILL DO!

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[Brett Hoerner]

On Feb 10, 6:17 pm, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
wrote:

> Perhaps
>   (global-set-key (kbd "A-h") 'iconify-or-deiconify-frame)
> would do?

Thanks for the help, but that does the equivalent of "Command +
M" (minimize), not "Command + H" (hide), which do have differences. :/

Brett

[Chetan]

Brett Hoerner <bretth...@gmail.com> writes:

I don't use mac, but do make-frame-invisible and make-frame-visible
work?

Chetan

[Brett Hoerner]

On Feb 10, 8:44 pm, Chetan <chetan.xs...@xspam.sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I don't use mac, but do make-frame-invisible and make-frame-visible
> work?

Nope. :/

For some reason, I don't expect this to be an Emacs function, so much
as a way to "hand off" the keypress to OS X. Command+H is a key bound
in every application to 'Hide', but the actual 'Hiding' is done by the
window manager / Finder / whatever OS X calls it. Here you can see in
the Emacs menu it even has Hide (which I can use via the mouse, but
not they keyboard ... Emacs still seems to "grab" it when I press it
and like I said - it says it isn't bound to anything).

http://i43.tinypic.com/2djxbmq.png

Brett

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 11.02.2009 um 14:32 schrieb Brett Hoerner:

> Emacs still seems to "grab" it when I press it

I have set Command to Command and Alt/Opt to none – because I need
characters like ï or ¡ Then there is still a yellow button to
minimise the frame ...

Maybe it helps to ask the question on this specialised list:

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[Xah Lee]

I use the following for Carbon emacs:

; disable the Mac shortcut convention of cmd-h to hide current
application.
(setq mac-pass-command-to-system nil)

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[Ian Eure]

If you set "Command Key" to "Command," it works; but you cannot use
the Command key in Emacs at all.

In the Carbon Emacs port, there was a way to pass the Command key
through to the OS if there was no Emacs binding for the pressed chord.
This functionality isn’t available in the Cocoa Emacs port.

- Ian

[Brett Hoerner]

I found the function I needed to call,

(define-key map [(alt h)] 'ns-do-hide-emacs)

Thanks,
Brett