From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steven Tamm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Mac OS X - Option key as meta and dead keys Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 09:11:18 -0800 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <353F9DD0-1E75-11D7-80E9-00039390AB82@mac.com> References: <15891.60949.928022.825702@galahad.cs.man.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1041527905 24086 80.91.224.249 (2 Jan 2003 17:18:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 17:18:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18U8z9-0006GL-00 for ; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 18:18:23 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18U91N-0005gP-00 for ; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 18:20:41 +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 18U8y1-0005Gk-01 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 12:17:13 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18U8vw-0004mK-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 12:15:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18U8uQ-0003vn-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 12:13:34 -0500 Original-Received: from a17-250-248-88.apple.com ([17.250.248.88] helo=smtpout.mac.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18U8sT-0003LA-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 12:11:29 -0500 Original-Received: from asmtp02.mac.com (asmtp02-qfe3 [10.13.10.66]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id h02HBMHl019759 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 09:11:23 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from mac.com ([12.236.43.16]) by asmtp02.mac.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id H83JQV00.UIR; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 09:11:19 -0800 Original-To: franconi@inf.unibz.it In-Reply-To: <15891.60949.928022.825702@galahad.cs.man.ac.uk> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) 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:10408 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:10408 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- 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-devel mailing list > Emacs-devel@gnu.org > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel