#9875 disable the modifier check for LFUN_SELF_INSERT on Mac

diff --git a/src/frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp b/src/frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp
index b760da81edc7e65a56d9fe6c0417ab1b3e2bd8ad..4b6e769ddf89d1feba72f20a3ec72c700f9eb982 100644 (file)
--- a/src/frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp
+++ b/src/frontends/qt4/GuiApplication.cpp
@@ -2164,6 +2164,11 @@ void GuiApplication::processKeySym(KeySymbol const & keysym, KeyModifier state)
                                        current_view_->restartCursor();
                                return;
                        }
+                       // The following modifier check is not needed on Mac.
+                       // The keysym is either not text or it is different
+                       // from the non-modifier keysym. See #9875 for the
+                       // broken alt-modifier effect of having this code active.
+#if !defined(Q_OS_MAC)
                        // If a non-Shift Modifier is used we have a non-bound key sequence
                        // (such as Alt+j = j). This should be omitted (#5575).
                        // On Windows, AltModifier and ControlModifier are both
@@ -2182,6 +2187,7 @@ void GuiApplication::processKeySym(KeySymbol const & keysym, KeyModifier state)
                                }
                                return;
                        }
+#endif
                        // Since all checks above were passed, we now really have text that
                        // is to be inserted (e.g., AltGr-bound symbols). Thus change the
                        // func to LFUN_SELF_INSERT and thus cause the text to be inserted