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(Mac Input): Add description of mac-function-modifier. Now Unicode keyboard layouts work.

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@cindex keyboard coding (Mac OS)

@vindex mac-control-modifier
@vindex mac-command-modifier
@vindex mac-option-modifier
  On Mac, Emacs can use @key{control}, @key{command}, and @key{option}
keys as any of Emacs modifier keys except @key{SHIFT} (i.e.,
@key{ALT}, @key{CTRL}, @key{HYPER}, @key{META}, and @key{SUPER}).  The
assignment is controlled by the variables @code{mac-control-modifier},
@code{mac-command-modifier}, and @code{mac-option-modifier}.  The
value for each of these variables can be one of the following symbols:
@code{alt}, @code{control}, @code{hyper}, @code{meta}, @code{super},
and @code{nil} (no particular assignment).  By default, the
@key{control} key works as @key{CTRL}, and the @key{command} key as
@key{META}.

  For the @key{option} key, if @code{mac-option-modifier} is set to
@code{nil}, which is the default, the key works as the normal
@key{option} key, i.e., dead-key processing will work.  This is useful
for entering non-@acronym{ASCII} Latin characters directly from the
Mac keyboard, for example.

  Emacs recognizes the setting in the Keyboard control panel (Mac OS
Classic) or the International system preference pane (Mac OS X) and
supports international and alternative keyboard layouts (e.g., Dvorak)
if its script is either Roman, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Korean,
Cyrillic, Simplified Chinese, or Central European.  Keyboard layouts
based on Unicode may not work properly.  (Try drag-and-drop if input
from the Character Palette does not work.)  Selecting one of the layouts
from the keyboard layout pull-down menu will affect how the keys typed
on the keyboard are interpreted.

@vindex mac-pass-command-to-system
@vindex mac-pass-control-to-system
  Mac OS intercepts and handles certain key combinations (e.g.,
@key{command}-@key{SPC} for switching input languages).  These will not

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@cindex keyboard coding (Mac OS)

@vindex mac-control-modifier
@vindex mac-command-modifier
@vindex mac-option-modifier
@vindex mac-function-modifier
  On Mac, Emacs can use @key{control}, @key{command}, @key{option}, and
laptop @key{function} keys as any of Emacs modifier keys except
@key{SHIFT} (i.e., @key{ALT}, @key{CTRL}, @key{HYPER}, @key{META}, and
@key{SUPER}).  The assignment is controlled by the variables
@code{mac-control-modifier}, @code{mac-command-modifier},
@code{mac-option-modifier}, @code{mac-function-modifier}.  The value for
each of these variables can be one of the following symbols: @code{alt},
@code{control}, @code{hyper}, @code{meta}, @code{super}, and @code{nil}
(no particular assignment).  By default, the @key{control} key works as
@key{CTRL}, and the @key{command} key as @key{META}.

  For the @key{option} key, if @code{mac-option-modifier} is set to
@code{nil}, which is the default, the key works as the normal
@key{option} key, i.e., dead-key processing will work.  This is useful
for entering non-@acronym{ASCII} Latin characters directly from the
Mac keyboard, for example.

  Emacs recognizes the setting in the Keyboard control panel (Mac OS
Classic) or the International system preference pane (Mac OS X) and
supports international and alternative keyboard layouts (e.g., Dvorak).
Selecting one of the layouts from the keyboard layout pull-down menu
will affect how the keys typed on the keyboard are interpreted.

@vindex mac-pass-command-to-system
@vindex mac-pass-control-to-system
  Mac OS intercepts and handles certain key combinations (e.g.,
@key{command}-@key{SPC} for switching input languages).  These will not