<p dir="auto">I’m using the German ergonomic keyboard mapping <a href="http://neo-layout.org/" rel="nofollow">Neo</a> and Mac OS.</p>
<p dir="auto">By default, Atom has several key bindings of the form <code class="notranslate">Alt+X</code> (<code class="notranslate">X</code> being a letter). These correspond to special characters on my keyboard map, e.g., <code class="notranslate">Alt+F</code> (or, in Apple terms <code class="notranslate">Option F</code>) is <code class="notranslate">=</code>.</p>
<p dir="auto">Expected behaviour:</p>
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<li>The symbol is inserted.</li>
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<p dir="auto">Actual behaviour:</p>
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<li>The key binding is triggered.</li>
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<p dir="auto">I suppose you could argue that this behaviour is not a bug; in this case I urge you to reconsider the default bindings, since the current default effectively blocks me (and other non-English keyboard users) from entering various special characters.</p>
<p dir="auto">I am running Atom 0.161.0 on Mac OS X Yosemite and use the <a href="http://www.neo-layout.org/" rel="nofollow">German Neo Layout</a>. Unfortunately I can't type the characters : &lt; &gt; and =. In other applications (Browser, Email and so forth) it works as expected.<br>
I am aware of the issues <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="35573301" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/atom/atom-keymap/issues/35" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/atom/atom-keymap/issues/35/hovercard" href="https://github.com/atom/atom-keymap/issues/35">atom/atom-keymap#35</a>, <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="28529842" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/1625" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/atom/atom/issues/1625/hovercard" href="https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/1625">#1625</a> and <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="45798871" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/3834" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/atom/atom/issues/3834/hovercard" href="https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/3834">#3834</a> but these are only for the "right ALT" key.</p>