#+TITLE: OSX layer
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* Table of Contents :TOC_4_org:noexport:
- [[Description][Description]]
- [[Philosophy][Philosophy]]
- [[Install][Install]]
- [[Layer][Layer]]
- [[Use with non-US keyboard layouts][Use with non-US keyboard layouts]]
- [[Coreutils][Coreutils]]
- [[Key Bindings][Key Bindings]]
- [[Future Work][Future Work]]
* Description
Spacemacs is not just emacs+vim. It can have OSX keybindings too!
This layer globally defines common OSX keybindings. ~⌘~ is set to
~super~ and ~⌥~ is set to ~meta~. Aside from that, there's nothing
much, really.
While in =dired= this layer will try to use =gls= instead of =ls=.
* Philosophy
While this layer enables common OSX bindings, it does not implement
OSX navigation keybindings. Spacemacs is meant to be used with evil,
and we encourage you to do so :)
* Install
** Layer
To use this configuration layer, add it to your =~/.spacemacs=. You will need to
add =osx= to the existing =dotspacemacs-configuration-layers= list in this
file.
*** Use with non-US keyboard layouts
If you need the ~⌥~ key to type common characters such as ={[]}~= which is usual
for e.g. Finnish and Swedish keyboard layouts, you'll probably want to leave the
~⌥~ key unchanged by setting the =osx-use-option-as-meta= variable to =nil=:
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(setq-default dotspacemacs-configuration-layers '(
(osx :variables osx-use-option-as-meta nil)))
#+END_SRC
If you have problem entering symbols that are behind the ~⌥~ key you may want to added this to the user-init in the .spacemacs-File. This will allow you to use the right ~⌥~ key to write symbols. The left ~⌥~ key can be used as the Meta key.
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(setq-default mac-right-option-modifier nil)
#+END_SRC
** Coreutils
To get =gls= install coreutils homebrew:
#+BEGIN_SRC sh
brew install coreutils
#+END_SRC
* Key Bindings
| Key Binding | Description |
|-------------+-------------------|
| ~⌘ =~ | Scale up text |
| ~⌘ -~ | Scale down text |
| ~⌘ q~ | Quit |
| ~⌘ v~ | Paste |
| ~⌘ c~ | Copy |
| ~⌘ x~ | Cut |
| ~⌘ a~ | Select all |
| ~⌘ w~ | Close window |
| ~⌘ W~ | Close frame |
| ~⌘ n~ | New frame |
| ~⌘ z~ | Undo |
| ~⌘ Z~ | Redo |
| ~⌃ ⌘ f~ | Toggle fullscreen |
* Future Work
- Allow user to choose from either ~hyper~ or ~super~ as ~⌘~. This is an option
that is supported cross-platform.
- Configurable option to keep the OSX and spacemacs clipboards separate