alt key on pc keyboard with mac osx

alt key on pc keyboard with mac osx

[Sean McLaughlin]

Hello,

  I have a mac laptop running osx.  I'm using a pc usb keyboard.  I can't 
get emacs to recognize the ALT key as a META key.  When I type 'ALT k', for 
instance, I get a 'u' with a grave accent.  Is there a way to remap the alt 
key as a meta key?

Thanks,

Sean

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Re: alt key on pc keyboard with mac osx

[Gilbert Harman]

Try adding to your .emacs file

  (setq mac-command-key-is-meta nil)

On 8/19/03 1:57 PM, "Sean McLaughlin" <seanmcl1976@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I have a mac laptop running osx.  I'm using a pc usb keyboard.  I can't
> get emacs to recognize the ALT key as a META key.  When I type 'ALT k', for
> instance, I get a 'u' with a grave accent.  Is there a way to remap the alt
> key as a meta key?

  gil

Re: alt key on pc keyboard with mac osx

[Andrew Choi]

"Sean McLaughlin" <seanmcl1976@hotmail.com> writes:

> I have a mac laptop running osx.  I'm using a pc usb keyboard.  I
> can't get emacs to recognize the ALT key as a META key.  When I type
> 'ALT k', for instance, I get a 'u' with a grave accent.  Is there a
> way to remap the alt key as a meta key?

It sounds like your keyboard's ALT key is correctly recognized as the
Mac option/alt key.

If you are running the CVS version of GNU Emacs built with the
--with-carbon option in GUI mode, set the variable
mac-command-key-is-meta to nil to use the option/alt key as META key.
This information is in the `Mac OS' section of the online manual.

Note that there may be problems with certain key combinations being
hidden by dead-key processing, though.