Re: Special characters on Emacs/Mac?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 09.03.2005 um 02:15 schrieb Ulrich Hobelmann:

> That variable is t.  So I guess alt should be free for other things, 
> or does Emacs somehow interfere with the native input method?  Anyhow, 
> I guess I could live with the latin-1-prefix or some other Emacs input 
> method.

You shouldn't guess that much, but read a bit:

mac-command-key-is-meta's value is t

        Non-nil means that the command key is used as the Emacs meta key.
        Otherwise the option key is used.

In your situation the alt or the option key ⌥ is free create all the 
special glyphs of your Mac's keyboard. These can be meaningful too:

        (set-language-environment               'German)
        (setq file-name-coding-system   'utf-8)
        (setq default-buffer-file-coding-system 'mac-roman-unix)
        (set-default-coding-systems             'mac-roman-unix)
        (set-keyboard-coding-system             'mac-roman)
        (prefer-coding-system                   'mac-roman-unix)

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  Pete

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