Re: rebinding ESC key

[B. Smith-Mannschott]

On Nov 10, 2007, at 22:05, Amy Templeton wrote:

> I didn't grow up with it as the only option (I started using Emacs a
> couple of years ago), but it has on occasion come in handy--for  
> example,
> on my school's Macs (which are the closest thing they have to a usable
> computer) they do have Emacs installed--but it's version 21.3 (not  
> even
> 21.4!), with no graphical support, and there's no working ALT/META  
> key,
> so I have to settle for ESC. As a rule, I just try not to use the  
> school
> computers.

Mac OS X's Terminal.app provides a setting "Use option as meta key" as  
far back as I can remember.

This means that you can't use Mac OS option key combinations to type  
foreign characters but you can still insert them in emacs using an  
appropriate emacs input-method (I use rfc1345).

// Ben Smith-Mannschott