From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Enrico Franconi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Mac OS X - Option key as meta and dead keys Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 07:45:25 +0000 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <15891.60949.928022.825702@galahad.cs.man.ac.uk> Reply-To: franconi@inf.unibz.it NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1041493492 5908 80.91.224.249 (2 Jan 2003 07:44:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 07:44:52 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18U026-0001XA-00 for ; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 08:44:50 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18U048-0000Fr-00 for ; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 08:46:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18U02Q-0007yp-05 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 02:45:10 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18U028-0007yj-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 02:44:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18U026-0007wH-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 02:44:51 -0500 Original-Received: from m1.cs.man.ac.uk ([130.88.192.2]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18U026-00064q-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 02:44:50 -0500 Original-Received: from galahad.cs.man.ac.uk by m1.cs.man.ac.uk (8.8.8/AL/MJK-2.0) id HAA15102; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 07:43:46 GMT Original-Received: (from franconi@localhost) by galahad.cs.man.ac.uk (8.11.6/8.9.3) id h027jQk25380; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 07:45:26 GMT Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under Emacs 21.1.2 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:10402 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:10402 I've always used the command key as meta, so I never noticed the following strange behaviour when the option key is set as meta. Suppose I want to type meta-e (sentence-end) by using the option key as meta, that is with mac-command-key-is-meta set to nil. I need to type option-e twice, since option-e is a dead key in MacOS, so the first use of it does not do anything. In general, it appears that whenever option- is a dead key combination, there is the need to type the option- twice. Note that if I use emacs -nw from Terminal (with the Terminal setting 'use option as meta'), then option- works perfectly as expected, i.e., it is never the case that option- is a dead key. cheers -- e.