Re: [1/3] Make mac driver the default on OS X

[Per Johansson]

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Charles Davis  wrote:
> > More items can be added to the menus easily enough.  However, I'm loathe to assign the usual keyboard shortcuts.  The problem is that the Command key is used to generate Alt keystrokes and it's relatively likely that a Windows program will want to receive Alt-H for its menus.
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> Why aren't we using Option as Alt? Nearly every Mac keyboard labels it as "Alt" these days. Is typing characters like 'ü' and 'ø' and '∆' really that important? :)

Yes, they are. But even more importantly, most of us Europeans also
need it to type [, ], {, }, ~, |, etc. Even @ is option-2 for me.

Regards,