Meta key for Emacs running on Mac terminal

Meta key for Emacs running on Mac terminal

[ishi soichi]

GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0, NS apple-appkit-1265.21) of
2015-04-11 on builder10-9.porkrind.org

OSX El Capitan
10.11.6

I am trying to run emacs on terminal, like

/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -nw

Emacs itself works.  But the right Command key is not recognized as a meta
key, unlike running Emacs.app.

There seems a way to map the option key as a meta key, but I prefer the
right command key would become the meta key.

Is there anyway to achieve it?

Thanks

Re: Meta key for Emacs running on Mac terminal

[Filipp Gunbin]

On 05/09/2016 09:24 +0900, ishi soichi wrote:

> GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0, NS apple-appkit-1265.21) of
> 2015-04-11 on builder10-9.porkrind.org
>
> OSX El Capitan
> 10.11.6
>
> I am trying to run emacs on terminal, like
>
> /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -nw
>
> Emacs itself works.  But the right Command key is not recognized as a meta
> key, unlike running Emacs.app.
>
> There seems a way to map the option key as a meta key, but I prefer the
> right command key would become the meta key.
>
> Is there anyway to achieve it?
>
> Thanks

Did you check System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Modifier keys?  How is
your Command key mapped?

I use emacs in standard MacOS terminal, modifiers remapped a bit via
aforementioned settings window and it works.

Maybe you have other things set up which get into your way?

Filipp

Re: Meta key for Emacs running on Mac terminal

[ishi soichi]

In System Preferences, Command Key is mapped to Command, which is default.

Do you mean command keys should work as meta keys for terminal emacs by
default?

Esc key works as meta key, though.

2016-09-06 20:56 GMT+09:00 Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin@fastmail.fm>:

> On 05/09/2016 09:24 +0900, ishi soichi wrote:
>
> > GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0, NS apple-appkit-1265.21) of
> > 2015-04-11 on builder10-9.porkrind.org
> >
> > OSX El Capitan
> > 10.11.6
> >
> > I am trying to run emacs on terminal, like
> >
> > /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -nw
> >
> > Emacs itself works.  But the right Command key is not recognized as a
> meta
> > key, unlike running Emacs.app.
> >
> > There seems a way to map the option key as a meta key, but I prefer the
> > right command key would become the meta key.
> >
> > Is there anyway to achieve it?
> >
> > Thanks
>
> Did you check System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Modifier keys?  How is
> your Command key mapped?
>
> I use emacs in standard MacOS terminal, modifiers remapped a bit via
> aforementioned settings window and it works.
>
> Maybe you have other things set up which get into your way?
>
> Filipp
>

Re: Meta key for Emacs running on Mac terminal

[Jude DaShiell]

Try escape then hit x then type list-packages then hit enter and see if 
something other than the error dialog comes up.

On Tue, 6 Sep 2016, Filipp Gunbin wrote:

> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 07:56:01
> From: Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin@fastmail.fm>
> To: ishi soichi <soichi777@gmail.com>
> Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: Meta key for Emacs running on Mac terminal
> 
> On 05/09/2016 09:24 +0900, ishi soichi wrote:
>
>> GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0, NS apple-appkit-1265.21) of
>> 2015-04-11 on builder10-9.porkrind.org
>>
>> OSX El Capitan
>> 10.11.6
>>
>> I am trying to run emacs on terminal, like
>>
>> /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -nw
>>
>> Emacs itself works.  But the right Command key is not recognized as a meta
>> key, unlike running Emacs.app.
>>
>> There seems a way to map the option key as a meta key, but I prefer the
>> right command key would become the meta key.
>>
>> Is there anyway to achieve it?
>>
>> Thanks
>
> Did you check System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Modifier keys?  How is
> your Command key mapped?
>
> I use emacs in standard MacOS terminal, modifiers remapped a bit via
> aforementioned settings window and it works.
>
> Maybe you have other things set up which get into your way?
>
> Filipp
>
>

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