From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars-Johan Liman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: MacOS X: Not all Alt keys are equal? Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:56:22 +0100 Message-ID: <22ipv72tix.fsf@ziptop.autonomica.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301062142 2797 80.91.229.12 (25 Mar 2011 14:09:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:09:02 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 25 15:08:57 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q37h8-0005sf-HD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:08:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39189 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q37f3-0006RE-QR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:06:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43297 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q37VB-0003uG-7c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:56:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q37V5-00017H-58 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:56:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.cafax.se ([192.71.228.4]:64531) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q37V4-00016m-RY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:56:27 -0400 Original-Received: from ziptop.autonomica.net (ziptop.autonomica.net [77.72.226.72]) by mail.cafax.se (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p2PDuNNO028464 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:56:23 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from ziptop.autonomica.net (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by ziptop.autonomica.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p2PDuMRq054363 for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:56:22 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Peter Breitfeld's message of "Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:04:45 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (darwin) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 192.71.228.4 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:80424 Archived-At: Peter, phbrf@t-online.de: > Lars, > Inspecting customize-group ns I found the following settings: > Variable Status > ------------------------------------------------------ > ns-control-modifier: control (STANDARD) > ns-command-modifier: meta (CHANGED in my .emacs) > ns-alternate-modifier: 'meta (CHANGED, but not in my .emacs, > I didn't find where it was set) > Help on this variable says: defined in C Source Code. It's value is nil > ns-right-alternate-modifier: > Use the value of ns-alternate-modifier (STANDARD) > Help says: It's value is left > I use the same Emacs-version as you do with a german keyboard. On my > iMac left and right alt-keys behave identical. Hmm. I wouldn't have thought that would work the way I want it to. For me to understand better: which key combination do you use to generate a backslash inside your Emacs, given the above settings? Cheers, /Liman