How to type {, [

How to type {, [

[Yuan Cheng]

Dear Sir or Madam,

my name is Yuan Cheng and I'm from Germany. Today I started to use emacs, but I've encountered a big problem. 
I don't know how I can type { } or [ ]. I am using a german keyboard and to type them I have to use "alt" (on my Mac) which has another usage in emacs.

Best regards, 

Yuan Cheng

Re: How to type {, [

[Nicolas Forgerit]

Hello Mr. Cheng,

good choice! Load your .emacs file (which you can usually find at [1])
with "C-x C-f", paste the code [0] into it, save with "C-x C-s". Then
either restart Emacs or type "M-x eval-buffer" and hit Enter. This
command remaps "Meta" to the "Apple Cmd-Button" and let's you use
"Alt" for the brackets. I think this is the most useful way to go on a
Mac.

Have fun & best regards from Karlsruhe! :-)
Ciao
  Nico

[0] Emacs Lisp Code:
;; (begin) ENABLE MAC KBD BINDINGS
(setq mac-option-modifier nil
      mac-command-modifier 'meta
      x-select-enable-clipboard t)
;; (end of code-snippet)

[1] Filepath on our Harddisk-Drive
~/.emacs


On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Yuan Cheng <gmzgmy@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Sir or Madam,
>
> my name is Yuan Cheng and I'm from Germany. Today I started to use emacs, but I've encountered a big problem.
> I don't know how I can type { } or [ ]. I am using a german keyboard and to type them I have to use "alt" (on my Mac) which has another usage in emacs.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Yuan Cheng
>



-- 
Ciao
                                     Nico

Re: How to type {, [

[Stefan Vollmar]

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Dear Mr Cheng,

I would recommend Aquamacs, http://aquamacs.org, which is based on GNU Emacs and has been adapted for the Mac. In particular, a lot of effort went into the support of non-American keyboards: I am also working on a German Mac keyboard and it took just one mouse-click to configure it - the alt-key now works as meta while keeping the ability to create {} and [] in the usual Mac way.

Hope this helps.
Warm regards,
 Stefan

On 09.06.2011, at 14:22, Yuan Cheng wrote:

> Dear Sir or Madam,
> 
> my name is Yuan Cheng and I'm from Germany. Today I started to use emacs, but I've encountered a big problem. 
> I don't know how I can type { } or [ ]. I am using a german keyboard and to type them I have to use "alt" (on my Mac) which has another usage in emacs.
> 
> Best regards, 
> 
> Yuan Cheng

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Re: How to type {, [

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 09.06.2011 um 14:22 schrieb Yuan Cheng:

> I don't know how I can type { } or [ ]. I am using a german keyboard  
> and to type them I have to use "alt" (on my Mac) which has another  
> usage in emacs.


Why don't you try to press all keys of your keyboard, adding on each  
new run one more modifier (shift, alt, alt-shift, ...)? Or read the  
documentation.

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Re: How to type {, [

[Deniz Dogan]

On 2011-06-10 09:09, Peter Dyballa wrote:
>
> Am 09.06.2011 um 14:22 schrieb Yuan Cheng:
>
>> I don't know how I can type { } or [ ]. I am using a german keyboard
>> and to type them I have to use "alt" (on my Mac) which has another
>> usage in emacs.
>
>
> Why don't you try to press all keys of your keyboard, adding on each new
> run one more modifier (shift, alt, alt-shift, ...)? Or read the
> documentation.
>

So helpful.