* Mac OS X - Option key as meta and dead keys
@ 2003-01-02 7:45 Enrico Franconi
2003-01-02 17:11 ` Steven Tamm
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From: Enrico Franconi @ 2003-01-02 7:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
I've always used the command key as meta, so I never noticed the
following strange behaviour when the option key is set as meta.
Suppose I want to type meta-e (sentence-end) by using the option key
as meta, that is with mac-command-key-is-meta set to nil. I need to
type option-e twice, since option-e is a dead key in MacOS, so the
first use of it does not do anything. In general, it appears that
whenever option-<something> is a dead key combination, there is the
need to type the option-<something> twice.
Note that if I use emacs -nw from Terminal (with the Terminal setting
'use option as meta'), then option-<something> works perfectly as
expected, i.e., it is never the case that option-<something> is a dead
key.
cheers
-- e.
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* Re: Mac OS X - Option key as meta and dead keys
2003-01-02 7:45 Mac OS X - Option key as meta and dead keys Enrico Franconi
@ 2003-01-02 17:11 ` Steven Tamm
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Steven Tamm @ 2003-01-02 17:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: emacs-devel
I think there probably needs to be a "mac-pass-option-to-system"
variable to go along with command and control. This would prevent the
option-e from being sent to the system first (and trapped). I'll add
this in soon.
-Steven
On Wednesday, January 1, 2003, at 11:45 PM, Enrico Franconi wrote:
> I've always used the command key as meta, so I never noticed the
> following strange behaviour when the option key is set as meta.
>
> Suppose I want to type meta-e (sentence-end) by using the option key
> as meta, that is with mac-command-key-is-meta set to nil. I need to
> type option-e twice, since option-e is a dead key in MacOS, so the
> first use of it does not do anything. In general, it appears that
> whenever option-<something> is a dead key combination, there is the
> need to type the option-<something> twice.
>
> Note that if I use emacs -nw from Terminal (with the Terminal setting
> 'use option as meta'), then option-<something> works perfectly as
> expected, i.e., it is never the case that option-<something> is a dead
> key.
>
> cheers
> -- e.
>
>
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