From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eden Smallwood Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: OSX Meta bound to Esc! Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 18:53:02 -0800 Organization: Super Secret Sacred Wars Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <140120041853024358%stupidnewsprogram@home.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1074136741 19110 80.91.224.253 (15 Jan 2004 03:19:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 03:19:01 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 15 04:18:52 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Agy20-0004xM-00 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 04:18:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AgxlO-0000DS-LN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 22:01:42 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!pln-w!lotsanews.com!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!216.218.192.242!news.he.net!news.kjsl.com!news.lafn.org!stupidnewsprogram Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-66-81-28-112.rev.o1.com Original-X-Trace: zook.lafn.org 1074135274 41911 66.81.28.112 (15 Jan 2004 02:54:34 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@zook.lafn.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 02:54:34 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: YA-NewsWatcher/3.1.8 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:120109 comp.emacs:82834 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:16052 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:16052 In article , Tim McNamara wrote: € There's nothing preposterous about it. Nothing? Not even a little? The Esc key is *not* even a real modifier key, it's in the upper left hand corner, (only), so even if it were a mod key, I'd have to type the "letter" with my thumb, it's completely tiny, (on this and some kbds), and there is an unused mod key, labelled "option" & "alt" sitting there unused, in the right place, and it's nice and chunky. A "wee bit silly" then? :) € Terminal menu -> Window Settings -> Keyboard popup € menu and make sure that the checkbox for using the Alt key as Meta is € checked. Yup! I'm hooked up fine, thank you and t'other fellow too. A bit freaky finding a checkbox for JUST EXACTLY THIS... like finding a check box labelled, "If you're Eden Smallwood, click here"! € > PS: It (emacs) doesn't seem to work very well in other ways... € € It's Apple, not Emacs. Ok no problem; I don't want to slam emacs, just reporting. € Follow the download instructions on the Savannah CVS site and the Wish I could do them nifty things, but it's my work machine, id est, it's the boss' machine, dernit. Thanks, Eden -- Mail from here: www.lafn.org/~zeppenwolf