From: "B. Smith-Mannschott" <benpsm@gmail.com>
To: Amy Templeton <amy.g.templeton@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: rebinding ESC key
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 11:50:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <FF65AC77-E950-430A-A84D-0F6109695C8B@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <876409lsk2.fsf@gmail.com>
On Nov 10, 2007, at 22:05, Amy Templeton wrote:
> I didn't grow up with it as the only option (I started using Emacs a
> couple of years ago), but it has on occasion come in handy--for
> example,
> on my school's Macs (which are the closest thing they have to a usable
> computer) they do have Emacs installed--but it's version 21.3 (not
> even
> 21.4!), with no graphical support, and there's no working ALT/META
> key,
> so I have to settle for ESC. As a rule, I just try not to use the
> school
> computers.
Mac OS X's Terminal.app provides a setting "Use option as meta key" as
far back as I can remember.
This means that you can't use Mac OS option key combinations to type
foreign characters but you can still insert them in emacs using an
appropriate emacs input-method (I use rfc1345).
// Ben Smith-Mannschott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-11 10:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-06 8:48 rebinding ESC key Mike Mattie
2007-11-06 10:25 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-11-07 7:40 ` Kevin Rodgers
2007-11-07 13:35 ` Mike Mattie
[not found] ` <mailman.3078.1194421225.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-10 20:13 ` don provan
2007-11-10 21:05 ` Amy Templeton
2007-11-11 10:50 ` B. Smith-Mannschott [this message]
[not found] <mailman.3032.1194339074.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-07 19:06 ` Johan Bockgård
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