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Support assistant key when assistant is disabled

Reported by nat...@moxune.com, Dec 9 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 9901.77.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/62.0.3202.97 Safari/537.36
Platform: 9901.77.0 (Official Build) stable-channel eve

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Disable assistant key
2. Press the assistant key in a web page that captures key codes in Javascript (Example page: https://codepen.io/miduga/pen/ujolf?page=1&)

What is the expected behavior?
Pressing the assistant button returns a valid key code

What went wrong?
Nothing happens

Did this work before? No 

Does this work in other browsers? N/A

Chrome version: 62.0.3202.97  Channel: stable
OS Version: 9901.77.0
Flash Version: 27.0.0.187 /opt/google/chrome/pepper/libpepflashplayer.so

I am a developer trying to use the Pixelbook and found that the ctrl key is bound to a ton of built-in shortcuts. If the assistant key became usable while the assistant is disabled I could map the assistant key in my development environment (currently looking at Cloud9).

I think this feature will be beneficial to a lot of people planning to use the Pixelbook for development.
 
This related issue could be relevant:
crbug.com/784857 - Allow remapping Assistant key as "Super/Windows" on Pixelbook

Comment 2 by nat...@moxune.com, Dec 19 2017

Hi Denny,

Yes, I think that issue is related, however the ask on that one is to support a remap in Crouton. My hope would be to get the button working under ChromeOS proper as well.

Comment 3 by nat...@moxune.com, Jan 3 2018

This would also be a benefit for the Chrome browsing experience on the Pixelbook. On my Mac, I used to use the meta key for combinations like meta+a (select all), meta+v (paste) and the control key for other things, like ctrl+a (jump to beginning of line), ctrl+e (jump to end of a line).

This was possible within the browser on a Mac, but on the pixelbook, I've lost the ability to use the later combinations. Exposing the assistant key would allow us to have both sets of mappings like traditional OS/keyboard combos.

Comment 4 by vsu...@google.com, Jan 10 2018

Components: IO>Keyboard
Being able to remap the assistance key to super/meta would be fantastic for me. When using systems remotely(eg webex/teamviewer/rdp/joinme/etc), the lack of a super/meta key is a real pain.
This can be closed as a dupe of: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=784857

The claim is made here that the other ticket is specific to crouton but that's not the case. #784857 is intended to provide the option to remap the Assistant the Key to work throughout ChromeOS.

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