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Asked: 2026-05-24T23:57:02+00:00

The recent MacBook Pro keyboard and the bluetooth keyboard layout has only one Control

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The recent MacBook Pro keyboard and the bluetooth keyboard layout has only one Control key but two Command keys. And symmetric keys at that. For a while I attempted to remap the modifier keys using the System preferences which works OK for me but drives anyone else using my computers crazy. This got me to wondering, is there a simpler way to achieve equivalence between Control (C-) and Command (S-) other than rebinding all the existing S-* keybindings?

To be clear, I am looking to have the keys labeled “command” execute as a Ctrl- prefix while I do not care what the key labeled “control” does, i.e. having three Control keys is OK.

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    You can set mac-command-modifier,

    mac-command-modifier is a variable defined in `ns-win.el’.
    Its value is super

    This variable is an alias for `ns-command-modifier’.

    Documentation:
    This variable describes the behavior of the command key.
    Set to control, meta, alt, super, or hyper means it is taken to be that key.

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