From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Special characters on Emacs/Mac? Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 09:30:30 +0100 Message-ID: <11d54cd070cd403df43008f832a6b795@Web.DE> References: <392a0eF5u0gl1U1@individual.net> <87zmxfcz62.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> <395r0kF5u5pbaU1@individual.net> <397112F5rets4U1@individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110357843 23506 80.91.229.2 (9 Mar 2005 08:44:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 08:44:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 09 09:44:03 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8wnM-00035j-U4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 09:43:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8x1z-0001IH-SO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 03:59:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D8wv4-0008Gx-F5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 03:51:54 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D8wv0-0008FR-Q1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 03:51:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8wuy-000891-Mx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 03:51:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [217.72.192.225] (helo=smtp07.web.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1D8waP-0001IB-II for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 03:30:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [84.245.189.82] (helo=[192.168.2.100]) by smtp07.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (WEB.DE 4.103 #192) id 1D8waO-0000Do-00; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 09:30:32 +0100 In-Reply-To: <397112F5rets4U1@individual.net> Original-To: Ulrich Hobelmann X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:24677 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24677 Am 09.03.2005 um 02:15 schrieb Ulrich Hobelmann: > That variable is t. So I guess alt should be free for other things,=20= > or does Emacs somehow interfere with the native input method? Anyhow,=20= > I guess I could live with the latin-1-prefix or some other Emacs input=20= > method. You shouldn't guess that much, but read a bit: mac-command-key-is-meta's value is t Non-nil means that the command key is used as the Emacs meta = key. Otherwise the option key is used. In your situation the alt or the option key =E2=8C=A5 is free create all = the=20 special glyphs of your Mac's keyboard. These can be meaningful too: (set-language-environment 'German) (setq file-name-coding-system 'utf-8) (setq default-buffer-file-coding-system 'mac-roman-unix) (set-default-coding-systems 'mac-roman-unix) (set-keyboard-coding-system 'mac-roman) (prefer-coding-system 'mac-roman-unix) -- Mit friedvollen Gr=C3=BC=C3=9Fen Pete The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new=20 discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..."=20 [Isaac Asimov]