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Re: Can't remap option key in Mac OS X


From: Christos Chryssochoidis
Subject: Re: Can't remap option key in Mac OS X
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:12:17 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.91 (darwin)

Nikolaj Schumacher <n_schumacher@web.de> writes:

> Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de> wrote:
>
>> Am 28.03.2008 um 15:05 schrieb Christos Chryssochoidis:
>>>> Do you mean /usr/bin/emacs? I don't think that you can do anything  like 
>>>> that
>>>> you intend with it ...
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, I meant the command line emacs. In the Emacs manual that I have
>>> it says something like that in Appendix F.1 "Keyboard and Mouse Input
>>> on Mac".
>>
>> Even if this version (or any other) of GNU Emacs knows about the  variables
>> mac-pass-option-to-system and mac-option-modifier it's not  likely that you
>> could achieve what you try: Emacs runs in Terminal as  a guest. The host,
>> Terminal, xterm, whatsoever, receives all  (modified) input first.
>
> Exactly.  Terminal.app turns the option key into a meta key.  It even
> has a preference setting "Use option as meta key".  If that is disabled
> /usr/bin/emacs should work as expected by the original poster out of the
> box.
>
>
> regards,
> Nikolaj Schumacher


Indeed, deselecting "use option key as meta key" in the preferences of
Terminal.app, makes the option key act as it normally does in other
applications, that is not as meta.

Thanks very much for pointing out this.

Regards,
Christos Chryssochoidis




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