Dear Erich,

if I am not mistaken, one point has not yet been mentioned: you are working on a Mac and there are some arguments for using the same kind of keyboard shortcuts that work consistently for all Mac applications (with a German keyboard, and not only Umlaute). AFAIK, this is not trivial to implement if one wants to have a "peaceful co-existence" with certain Emacs functionality. However, David Reitter has spent a considerable amount of effort to get this just right: it works "out-of-the-box" with Aquamacs. I am currently using one of the nightly development builds (Emacs 94.0.92.3) and can only recommend it.

Warm regards, 
 Stefan

On 23.05.2012, at 17:59, Neuwirth Erich wrote:

> I am using Emacs pretest 24.0.97 on a Mac with Lion 10.7.4.
> Some of my documents are in German, so I need to enter umlauts and sharp s.
> I have not your found an easy solution without giving up to many other keyboard macros.
> I still would like to use Cmd-X_C_V for Cut-Copy-Paste.
> And I still would like to use Alt as the meta key.
> 
> Is there a good solution complying with my wish list?

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