From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kamphausen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Mac - X11 - emacs - meta - alt key Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:45:22 +0200 Organization: Church of Emacs Message-ID: References: <4b9db71a$0$30332$c32e2966@unlimited.newshosting.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273000146 15730 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 19:09:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 19:09:06 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 04 21:09:04 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 1O9NUN-00057r-S4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 21:09:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34408 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9NUN-000202-A3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 15:09:03 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.albasani.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.sys.mac.system Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Trace: news.albasani.net ExvLXj7UEzTKvB3gqYrY/K4g5I4/72UG4hP6g8TVAcjZeLZX6pHQ6VJLnLTpi251f3RRzqt1x+GnZULSxZYwCdDPhtG+fstGfy6n3cTpOnW2mgwoBh4xp30V3hoTTPwp Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@albasani.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:45:23 +0000 (UTC) X-User-ID: im0ibua8RE51ilWpOAAPi6j4JKXV0NIFANfbfD3xV38= In-Reply-To: <4b9db71a$0$30332$c32e2966@unlimited.newshosting.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:Om4A9pQlFMPDarY142M4d5gGOxE= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; de; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.3 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: 2AEilwuiRWNaBAmFolYFZwEheZlgo9TXqW9MVHHiNU0= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177587 comp.sys.mac.system:879479 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:73074 Archived-At: Hi, > I'm still getting used to my Mac I think I will never. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/04/settling-osx-focus-follows-mouse-debate.html :-) > and have a strange problem with emacs. > When running Aquamacs on the Mac itself, the Alt/Option key is meta, > which is what I expect. However, I'm also remote accessing a Linux box > via X11/NXClient. When I run emacs (or xemacs) on in Linux, it looks > like X11 has remapped the Mac Command key to be meta. How do I put this > back? I struggled with Emacs on OSX, too. Someday I found the ns-* variables and could tune everything so that it (almost) works. Note however, that I had problems with a non-mac-keyboard and German characters. But maybe it can help you, too. Cheers, Stefan -- a blessed +42 regexp of confusion (weapon in hand) You hit. The format string crumbles and turns to dust. user=> (clojure-buch (Locale/GERMANY)) #