From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How can I stop Emacs from messing up my code by changing case Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:56:49 -0700 Message-ID: References: <1140521633.073193.170370@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1140524715.835857.310530@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1140530743.436521.120630@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1140596646 21905 80.91.229.2 (22 Feb 2006 08:24:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 08:24:06 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 22 09:24:03 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FBpHq-0000Ev-Jw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:23:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FBpHp-000072-Hn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 03:23:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FBgRS-0002HQ-P2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 17:57:11 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FBgRP-0002AZ-9K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 17:57:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FBgRO-00028f-A7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 17:57:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FBgXj-00082y-Vy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:03:40 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FBgRI-00053u-96 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 23:57:00 +0100 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 23:57:00 +0100 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 23:57:00 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <1140530743.436521.120630@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> 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:33356 Archived-At: anne001 wrote: > I am using gnu emacs november 2005, 22.0.50.1 > for mac > I tried C-h b and got a whole list of bindings! nothing about > capitalization there. > > I found the apple C binding for capitalization in this list > http://otn.oracle.com/jdeveloper/help/__inl.inline.true/__inl.topic.ide_rkeymapemacs_html/__inl.html > apple C seemed the most likely culprit > > and apple C does behave to capitalize words and it does turn GLUT into > Glut > > I can bind apple C to nothing, but if I restart emacs, the new binding > is forgotten. > So I don't have a permanent fix for now I'm not a Mac user, but Googling leads me to suggest that you put this in your ~/.emacs file: (setq mac-command-key-is-meta nil) You might also be interested in Easymacs: http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin/Software/Emacs/Easymacs/index.php -- Kevin Rodgers