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Re: Mac - X11 - emacs - meta - alt key


From: Stefan Kamphausen
Subject: Re: Mac - X11 - emacs - meta - alt key
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 15:43:34 -0000
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; de; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.3

Hi,

> I'm still getting used to my Mac

I think I will never.
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/04/settling-osx-focus-follows-mouse-debate.html
:-)

> and have a strange problem with emacs.
> When running Aquamacs on the Mac itself, the Alt/Option key is meta,
> which is what I expect.  However, I'm also remote accessing a Linux box
> via X11/NXClient.  When I run emacs (or xemacs) on in Linux, it looks
> like X11 has remapped the Mac Command key to be meta.  How do I put this
> back?

I struggled with Emacs on OSX, too.  Someday I found the ns-*
variables and could tune everything so that it (almost) works.  Note
however, that I had problems with a non-mac-keyboard and German
characters.  But maybe it can help you, too.


Cheers,
Stefan
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