Re: OS X: Change default key bindings of CMD and ALT

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

> On Jan 1, 2016, at 01:02, John Wiegley <address@hidden> wrote:

> Since there are people in both camps (i.e., people who will configure Emacs to
> the other pattern no matter what we do), it's hard to argue that one should
> necessarily be the default over the other.

For all the other Mac applications (except Xquartz) Alt is used to compose 
characters that are not by default in the keyboard layout. That's one of the 
very strong point of OSX machines by the way. On a standard JIS keyboard I can 
type French without having to change the layout, or English, or Japanese, out 
of the box.

The default for Emacs on Mac should be the OS default so that new users who are 
used to that behavior do not have to search for the Emacs way to use their 
keyboard the standard way...

Jean-Christophe Helary