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: Can't remap option key in Mac OS X Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:51:15 +0200 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206664920 22113 80.91.229.12 (28 Mar 2008 00:42:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:42:00 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 28 01:42:31 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 1Jf2fu-0002F7-P2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:42:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jf2fJ-0002jC-44 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:41:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JetSB-00045C-3z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:51:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JetS6-00044q-LA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:51:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JetS6-00044f-EZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:51:38 -0400 Original-Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.171]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JetS5-00071F-I5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:51:38 -0400 Original-Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id a2so370062ugf.48 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:51:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:from; bh=fmTMza1kTEKbZMIsmztFY2n0/SGIj3rcgunXnu8J5qY=; b=oNVITTZeEs2nPdOcwzIv6yy9rFEg1tZ5seHt7YGbrKoRf6g/CbXpUBhq+g2YFidH+IU9ZNI7YtVkfd0fe/Eg2efhtzso055biheReERycA956BeEDGCWn2Pwuuarmm7G47VjPh/6Es4FnuQiThqFKlOOTZmLwdaA+8ye7W3RBM8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:from; b=oeesT6n6l5MV8RfwTt+NB3HiVxQhXDG3kgcwUDXA80yLWjbWoltp7tasyIZnkZgLJZfLFKkN43taDNqLkNbS7AduqWha7fNLHi/1CoC1xTBS0RbSvjNqnTamqDaWTGQmRaZ556ejRofMthx0yjkq2BW1SV8G1H9CmUSyqDrrBBk= Original-Received: by 10.78.135.20 with SMTP id i20mr3137058hud.24.1206629481284; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:51:21 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from ChristosComputer.local ( [77.49.6.193]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b9sm522117mug.12.2008.03.27.07.51.18 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:51:20 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (darwin) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:35:09 -0400 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:52756 Archived-At: Greetings, I 'm trying to remap the option key in Emacs on Mac OS X so as it doens't function as the Meta key, as it does by default. (I would like it instead to function at it normally does in other applications to type special characters.) I tried combinations of (setq mac-pass-option-to-system nil/t) (setq mac-option-modifier nil) in my .emacs, but they don't seem to have any effect. Emacs seems to ignore them and keeps treating the option key as Meta. Am I doing something wrong? Which is the correct way to make the "option" key not function as Meta in Mac OS X? Thanks very much for any help. C. Chryssochoidis