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From: Steven Tamm <steventamm@mac.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Mac OS X - Option key as meta and dead keys
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 09:11:18 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <353F9DD0-1E75-11D7-80E9-00039390AB82@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15891.60949.928022.825702@galahad.cs.man.ac.uk>

I think there probably needs to be a "mac-pass-option-to-system" 
variable to go along with command and control.   This would prevent the 
option-e from being sent to the system first (and trapped).  I'll add 
this in soon.

-Steven

On Wednesday, January 1, 2003, at 11:45  PM, Enrico Franconi wrote:

> 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-<something> is a dead key combination, there is the
> need to type the option-<something> twice.
>
> Note that if I use emacs -nw from Terminal (with the Terminal setting
> 'use option as meta'), then option-<something> works perfectly as
> expected, i.e., it is never the case that option-<something> is a dead
> key.
>
> cheers
> -- e.
>
>
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      reply	other threads:[~2003-01-02 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-02  7:45 Mac OS X - Option key as meta and dead keys Enrico Franconi
2003-01-02 17:11 ` Steven Tamm [this message]

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