Emacs installs two separate executables under Haiku; it is up to the
user to decide which one suits him best: A regular executable, with
the lowercase name emacs, and a binary containing
Haiku-specific application metadata, with the name Emacs.
If you are launching Emacs from the Tracker, or want to make the
Tracker open files using Emacs, you should use the binary named
Emacs; if you are going to use Emacs in the terminal, or wish
to launch separate instances of Emacs, or do not care for the
aforementioned system integration features, use the binary named
emacs instead.
On Haiku, unusual modifier keys such as the Hyper key are unsupported. By default, the super key corresponds with the option key defined by the operating system, the meta key with the command key, the control key with the system control key, and the shift key with the system shift key. On a standard PC keyboard, Haiku should map these keys to positions familiar to those using a GNU system, but this may require some adjustment to your system’s configuration to work.
It is impossible to type accented characters using the system super key map.
You can customize the correspondence between modifier keys known to the system, and those known to Emacs. The variables that allow for that are described below.
haiku-meta-keysymThe system modifier key that will be treated as the Meta key by Emacs.
It defaults to command.
haiku-control-keysymThe system modifier key that will be treated as the Control key by
Emacs. It defaults to control.
haiku-super-keysymThe system modifier key that will be treated as the Super key by
Emacs. It defaults to option.
haiku-shift-keysymThe system modifier key that will be treated as the Shift key by
Emacs. It defaults to shift.
The value of each variable can be one of the symbols command,
control, option, shift, or nil.
nil or any other value will cause the default value to be used
instead.
On Haiku, Emacs defaults to using the system tooltip mechanism.
This usually leads to more responsive tooltips, but the tooltips will
not be able to display text properties or faces. If you need those
features, customize the variable use-system-tooltips to the
nil value, and Emacs will use its own implementation of
tooltips.
Unlike the X window system, Haiku does not have a system-wide resource database. Since many important options are specified via X resources (see X Options and Resources), an emulation is provided: upon startup, Emacs will load a file named GNU Emacs inside the user configuration directory (normally /boot/home/config/settings), which should be a flattened system message where keys and values are both strings, and correspond to attributes and their values respectively.
You can create such a file with the xmlbmessage tool.