New MacBook Pro and Air models have "Power" button in place of "Eject"

[pkamb]

The new Macbook models, having lost their optical drives, now sport "Power" where the "Eject" button was formerly located.

The Power button has the same behavior as Eject: it requires a hard/long press to activate.

It would be useful to extend NoEjectDelay to handle Power. Apple keyboards with Eject keys will soon be very rare.

[tekezo]

I'm investigating how to change the power button, unfortunately it has not succeed at the moment.
pqrs-org/Karabiner-archived#80

[pkamb]

Thanks, great to hear that you're working on it. Keep me updated on any progress or how I can help.

[tekezo]

KeyRemap4MacBook can change the behavior of the power button since version 8.0.66.
http://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/files/KeyRemap4MacBook-8.0.68.dmg

[pkamb]

The delay hasn't been fixed for Power, has it?

[tekezo]

Sorry, this issue was closed by mistake.

Treatment in the kernel of the eject key and power key is completely different.
And I cannot find an accessible parameter to get rid of power key delay at the moment.

[davidmarble]

Just adding my support for this. Recently got an Air for work and was super happy to find keyremap4macbook to make my life much more tolerable! Fn -> Ctrl and Ctrl -> Fn, along with Power & Eject -> forward delete.

NoEjectDelay is great for the bluetooth keyboard I use most of the time. Would love to remove the delay on my Air power button as well. Thanks for this great little project!

[gh666]

You write "The Power button has the same behavior as Eject: it requires a hard/long press to activate." Not on mine. If I press the power button and keep holding it down, it is force power off.