Re: where are my brackets?

[pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)]

Bao Marianna Nguyen <bmarianna@gmail.com> writes:

> I have a macbook pro and I use emacs for mac os. 

I would advise you to buy a more recent Apple computer and try MacOSX.


> The problem is that
> I can't type in {} or [] whit the usual keys, which is
> shift+options+8/9. How do I type these characters?
>
> And I have a norwegian keyboard

That's the bug. 
You've got two solutions:

- either you switch to an american keyboard, 

- or you switch to a norwegian programming language (where we may
  assume {} and [] are not used since they're so hard to type on a
  norwegian keyboard).

Notice that on MacOSX you can easily activate a key-chord to switch
layouts, and they type the bracket you want, and switch back.



Otherwise, in emacs, you could map some other key to them, using key
translations. See: keyboard-translate



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