There have been so many discussions over the years about this and I don't mean to rehash any of it. But there is some information floating around that's not correct. Or if I'm wrong, please correct me.
EDIT: SOLUTION
I found it. The Magic Keyboard Eject key (⏏) is easily reachable. I can assign it to be forward delete or absolutely any key. It's simple. But the instructions are hard to find.
Resource: https://verityj.github.io/2023/06/17/eject.html
Original note:
My conclusion: Eject key is not accessible. It is not part of the standard keybindings in /System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Resources/StandardKeyBinding.dict
(Eject key is an HID usage).
But I did try to get to it inside ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict Is there anything else I could try? (Without having to resort to Karabiner.)
In my ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict I ended up commenting out the following:
/* Eject symbols below is not an eject key and does not work: */
"\UF804" = "deleteForward:";
/* eject symbol? ⏏ as forward delete - does not work */
/* from http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE/CORPCHAR.TXT */
/* "Keyboard-0x8C" */
/* "0x8C 0x23CF # EJECT SYMBOL # Unicode 4.0 and later, Mac OS X only" */
/* from https://unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE/KEYBOARD.TXT */
"\U23CF" = "deleteForward:";
/* eject symbol? ⏏ as forward delete - does not work */
But interestingly, in Xcode under key bindings the forward delete changed to show two different Eject symbols:
Xcode shortcut screenshot for delete forward
Am I correct to assume that the two unicodes above are actually for the Eject symbol and not a keyboard key?
Thank you everyone, I am asking so I can understand what is going on with that key.
