Ever Wanted to Unbind macOS Keybindings in Emacs?

Here's all the keys that get bound in Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp/term/ns-win.el.gz

I've changed it to be unsetting these keys, because I find them annoying when I accidentally press them. This gives you more keys to allow for customization on macOS. You may want to wrap this in a when stanza to undefine it only on macOS, but that's up to you.

  ;;; unset macOS keybindings
  (global-unset-key [?\s-,])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-'])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-`])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-~])
  (global-unset-key [?\s--])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-:])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-?])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-^])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-&])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-C])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-D])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-E])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-L])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-M])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-S])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-a])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-c])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-d])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-e])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-f])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-F])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-g])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-h])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-H])
  (global-unset-key [?\M-\s-h])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-j])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-k])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-l])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-m])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-n])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-o])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-p])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-q])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-s])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-t])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-u])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-v])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-w])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-x])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-y])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-z])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-+])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-=])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-0])
  (global-unset-key [?\s-|])
  (global-unset-key [s-kp-bar])
  (global-unset-key [?\C-\s- ])
  (global-unset-key [s-right])
  (global-unset-key [s-left])
  (global-unset-key [home])
  (global-unset-key [end])
  (global-unset-key [kp-home])
  (global-unset-key [kp-end])
  (global-unset-key [kp-prior])
  (global-unset-key [kp-next])

  ;; Allow shift-clicks to work similarly to under Nextstep.
  (global-unset-key [S-down-mouse-1])

  ;; Special Nextstep-generated events are converted to function keys.  Here
  ;; are the bindings for them.  Note, these keys are actually declared in
  ;; x-setup-function-keys in common-win.
  (global-unset-key [ns-power-off])
  (global-unset-key [ns-open-file])
  (global-unset-key [ns-open-temp-file])
  (global-unset-key [ns-open-file-line])
  (global-unset-key [ns-spi-service-call])
  (global-unset-key [ns-new-frame])
  (global-unset-key [ns-toggle-toolbar])
  (global-unset-key [ns-show-prefs])
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