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pkamb / PowerKey

Remap your Macbook's power key to Forward Delete
MIT License
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Re-maping the key left to backspace? #21

Closed p10n closed 10 years ago

p10n commented 10 years ago

Hi, on German keyboard layouts (used in here Austria and also in Germany), we got the accents (acute and grave) next to the backspace key. Nobody understands why, because those accents are hardly every used in German. So, this key (right next to the backspace key!) is the dream place for delete.

I am desperately trying to re-map this key (tried ctrl-d using ukelele, also some other fiddling with DefaultKeyBinding.dict), but it does not seem to work reliably. Do you see an option to help us out, by creating a version that re-maps that key? I guess this should be far easier than using the power key, and I am convinced this would make you a national hero among Mac users here in Austria and Germany... ;-)

Kind regards from Vienna, Philipp

pkamb commented 10 years ago

Hi @p10n,

That sounds useful, but remapping other keys is beyond the scope of the PowerKey app. I would check out @tekezo's KeyRemap4MacBook app, which is far more powerful and will allow you to remap and configure all of the "normal" keys on your keyboard.

https://github.com/tekezo/KeyRemap4MacBook

https://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/

You should have no problem remapping your accent keys with KeyRemap4MacBook.

Thanks!

p10n commented 10 years ago

Hallo pkamb,

great - yes, this does all I need!

THANK YOU so much!!! :-)

Philipp