OSX layer
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1 Description
Spacemacs is not just emacs+vim. It can have OSX keybindings too! This layer
globally defines common OSX keybindings. ⌘ is set to super and ⌥ is set to
meta. Aside from that, there's nothing much, really.
While in dired this layer will try to use gls instead of ls.
2 Philosophy
While this layer enables common OSX bindings, it does not implement OSX navigation keybindings. Spacemacs is meant to be used with evil, and we encourage you to do so :)
3 Install
3.1 Layer
To use this configuration layer, add it to your ~/.spacemacs. You will need to
add osx to the existing dotspacemacs-configuration-layers list in this file.
3.1.1 Use with non-US keyboard layouts
If you need the ⌥ key to type common characters such as {[]}~ which is usual
for e.g. Finnish and Swedish keyboard layouts, you'll probably want to leave the
⌥ key unchanged by setting the osx-use-option-as-meta variable to nil:
(setq-default dotspacemacs-configuration-layers '( (osx :variables osx-use-option-as-meta nil)))
If you have problem entering symbols that are behind the ⌥ key you may want to
added this to the user-init in the .spacemacs-File. This will allow you to use
the right ⌥ key to write symbols. The left ⌥ key can be used as the Meta
key.
(setq-default mac-right-option-modifier nil)
3.1.2 Define words using OS X Dictionary
This layer by default enables defining words under point SPC x w d using OS X
Dictionary. In some cases you might want to manually setup dictionary to use.
For example,
(setq-default dotspacemacs-configuration-layers '( (osx :variables osx-dictionary-dictionary-choice "English")))
To get the list of available dictionaries call osx/list-available-dictionaries
function.
You can disable it by setting osx-use-dictionary-app variable to nil:
(setq-default dotspacemacs-configuration-layers '( (osx :variables osx-use-dictionary-app nil)))