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[Henri Lesourd <address@hidden>]

el.douwen wrote:

> hi all of you !
>
> in
> preferences>keyboard
> i have affected
> alt key
> meta key
> windows key
> caps lock key
>
> to
> "map to A modifier"
>
> but when i type successively all the mofiticating keys of my mac  
> (applekey, alt key, ctrl, fn, shift, caps), plus the key "e", in  
> order to obtain a numeroted list, i obtain nothing
>
> can anybody explain me i according to you i have missed anything ?
>
> i do not find in the help documents  any other consideration about  
> this topic, except the explanations of this item "map to A modifier".
I never understood clearly what all this bs with
modifiers really means. To me, I see the names written
on a keyboard, and I expect seeing these names used
in the menus, configuration panels, etc. of the software
I use (vs. some cryptico-neolithic nomenclature which
probably dates back to the ancient ages of emacs legacy
and of non-graphic, tty terminals...).

This being said, the menu entry of the operation
you want to use (e.g.: insert a bullet list) always
mentions the corresponding keyboard shortcut (if
there is one): thus another possible cause of your
problem could be simply that no shortcut at all
has ever been defined for the operation you want
to perform.