From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christos Chryssochoidis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Can't remap option key in Mac OS X Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:37:02 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: References: <268D920B-650A-4FCA-96CA-012B26566757@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206733066 9635 80.91.229.12 (28 Mar 2008 19:37:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:37:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Christos Chryssochoidis To: Peter Dyballa Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 28 20:38:17 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JfKP1-00052g-HG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:38:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JfKOQ-0000Q2-2d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:37:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JfKO8-0000OR-Fk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:37:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JfKO3-0000L1-RM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:37:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JfKO3-0000Kv-GD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:37:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.134.185]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JfKO3-0002oT-9y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:37:15 -0400 Original-Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id g7so699570muf.0 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:37:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:message-id:references:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:from; bh=mV5Ki8E+zGiDiDrg+S0zIp23VQocoPNARH8SOvXZHc8=; b=hxHrtqFjZ61I7oCl2124TFiNyEGRTHrpugLKkahKf9LHeagqU8tJ2Cn8NU8p8aRkE/ScnsUs5tBQDpKOWlBFt68wjeUkEB02JpNgpNThOa+ryYOk6GCo3mvT/2nBQXNXJ2pXBxaqdkUoOk4+267mWTyQxcIg2vDc5sLtPQyjsS0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=date:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:message-id:references:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:from; b=hvmzCVzkVtQyODEdI87VG0a236MqLh8dT6V2wAFIOJ+InlFdO0sCvqlTlG1Q8yU4WbFNW4+qE2t4QN8rRA7cBxPe/odTpeWAjJKYkqrAks4/L2VA0oI3GWATfPtpX0NwwxhuagxENjg0N4NH95zLwAznIS9oxVR8NYVwfQX8oCw= Original-Received: by 10.78.140.17 with SMTP id n17mr11389675hud.32.1206733033946; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:37:13 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from ?192.168.0.2? ( [77.49.223.151]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j2sm9152321mue.3.2008.03.28.12.37.09 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:37:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (OSX 962 2008-03-14) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:52779 Archived-At: On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Peter Dyballa wrote: > > Am 28.03.2008 um 15:05 schrieb Christos Chryssochoidis: >>> Do you mean /usr/bin/emacs? I don't think that you can do anything like >>> that you intend with it ... >>> >> >> Yes, I meant the command line emacs. In the Emacs manual that I have it >> says something like that in Appendix F.1 "Keyboard and Mouse Input on Mac". > > > Even if this version (or any other) of GNU Emacs knows about the variables > mac-pass-option-to-system and mac-option-modifier it's not likely that you > could achieve what you try: Emacs runs in Terminal as a guest. The host, > Terminal, xterm, whatsoever, receives all (modified) input first. I understand. I'll probably just use some GUI version of Emacs, which give more options to remap the various modifier keys of Mac. Cocoa Emacs allows to choose functions of the modifier keys from its preferences, and Carbon Emacs, "obeys" to the setting of mac-option-modifier in the .emacs file. Thanks, Christos