How do I swap CTRL and CAPS LOCK on Carbon Emacs on OSX without doing it OS-wide?

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I've recently started learning emacs since I was unhappy with Textmate and as a starting point read the "Effective Emacs" article by Steve Yegge. I was very keen on his CTRL -> CAPS LOCK swap, but I don't want to do it OS-wide, I want this swap to only occur in emacs every time I run it.

I was wondering if there's a way to do this in the .emacs file instead of going into system-properties and swapping it for the whole OS. I'm using Mac OS X Leopard.

'Fraid I don't have an answer for you, but...how often do you *use* caps lock? I mapped mine to control and have simply never missed it. — dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten, Aug 05 '09 at 16:04
@dmckee I'm sure one could do it using elisp though, which _might_ make it appropriate here, maybe...? — bdonlan, Aug 05 '09 at 16:20
@bdonlan: That's why I'm wishy-washy on the matter. That and have to explain about finding the beta password... — dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten, Aug 05 '09 at 16:26
Here's the password link, in case it comes to that: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/super-user-semi-private-beta-begins/ — bdonlan, Aug 05 '09 at 16:26

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 05 '09 at 21:23

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This is, unfortunately, not possible to do in your .emacs file.

answered Aug 05 '09 at 21:23

Nathaniel Flath

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Especially if caps is hardware-controllered, as it used to be on the mac. – Arafangion Oct 27 '11 at 22:31

How do I swap CTRL and CAPS LOCK on Carbon Emacs on OSX without doing it OS-wide?

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