Re: MacOS (emacsformacosx) c-spc, does not run set-mark-command

[Tim Cross]

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

>>>> "TC" == Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Diego Zamboni <diego@zzamboni.org> writes:
>
>>> I have seen differences in this behavior depending on the Emacs
>>> build. The emacs-mac port
>>> (https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport)
>>> seems to intercept certain Mac-specific keybindings such as C-space
>>> and C-M-space and gives them their "Mac meaning", e.g. to bring up
>>> Spotlight or the
>>> symbol chooser. I could never figure out how to disable this behavior.
>>> 
>>> Now I use emacs-plus (https://github.com/d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus) 
>>> and this no longer happens.
>>> 
>
>> Normally, you need to disable those 'shortcuts' at the OS level i.e.
>> under the keyboard shortucts item in macOS preferences panel. Problem is
>> any macOS shortcut will grab the keys before Emacs sees them. Not sure
>> how the emacs-plus version gets around this. 
>
> Right, it seems and issue of the OS shortcuts as C-space is for
> switching keyboards (US->spanish>etc etc).[1]
>
> Do you know how to change or disable them?
>

I'm not on a mac at present, but from memory it is under system preferences ->
keyborad -> shortcuts.