Windows – Mapping the Left Alt key to Control and Alt Gr to just Alt

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On my laptop, I use Emacs. However, I don't have a left Ctrl key, and I considered mapping the left Alt key to left Ctrl and the right Alt key (Alt Gr) to just Alt (Meta). This way, I can just hit the keys with my thumbs. How would I do this?

I'm using Windows right now, but I also might want to try this on Linux later.

Best Answer

You can remap virtually any key to any other key using AutoHotkey. Check out the remap site: http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/misc/Remap.htm

The code should have worked:

LAlt::LCtrl
LControl & RAlt::Alt

For a complete List of keys look here: http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/KeyList.htm

EDIT:

since this solution does not work (for whatever reason), I suggest looking at this answer on StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/229633/how-to-globally-map-altgr-key-to-alt-key

This guy had the same problem and managed to remap Alt Gr to Alt in the registry (which is more reliable anyway).

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