clarke@csri.toronto.edu (Jim Clarke) (10/15/90)
Question: what do I do to make the "control" key on my Mac SE act like the "command" key? Specifically, I want control-h to act like the "delete" key, as command-h does. I know it's possible, because I've been doing it for a long time on the SE in my office. I never gave it a second thought until I acquired a borrowed SE for use at home for a year, and discovered it insisted on command-h instead of control-h. These are both plain 1-Meg SE's with a 20 Meg hard drive, except that the one at home -- the uncooperative one -- has a Dove upgrade to 2 Meg of memory. Both are running system 6.0.5, to which I recently upgraded them. I can't find any suggestive INITs, nor anything on the Control Panel. (Why do I want to do this? My terminal emulator is "uw", which for reasons I now forget won't let me use the "enter" key as an interrupt key. So I use "delete" for interrupt -- never did like control-C [and we'd have the same problem if I did] -- and this reduces me to using control-h for character delete in UNIX. Out of habit I do the same in MS Word and when renaming files on the desktop, etc. The results are undesirable when what's expected is really command-h!) -- Jim Clarke -- Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4 clarke@csri.toronto.edu or clarke@csri.utoronto.ca // (416) 978-4058
ml27192@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (10/17/90)
Just use a macro program. Even MacroMaker should be able to map ^c to Command-C