From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Steuber Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs on OS X - configuration package Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 23:41:23 GMT Organization: Nerds for universal gun ownership Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040227213744639+0000@news.eircom.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1078202143 5325 80.91.224.253 (2 Mar 2004 04:35:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 04:35:43 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 02 05:35:38 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ay1cz-00053n-00 for ; Tue, 02 Mar 2004 05:35:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Ay1SL-0003zV-2P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2004 23:24:33 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!wn52feed!worldnet.att.net!199.45.49.37!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny03.gnilink.net.POSTED!d7fde121!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Lisp-Expression: (do ((a 1 b) (b 1 (+ a b))) (nil a) (print a)) X-AYB: All your base are belong to us X-Authority: Question Authority Original-Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 141.151.95.210 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net Original-X-Trace: nwrdny03.gnilink.net 1078184483 141.151.95.210 (Mon, 01 Mar 2004 18:41:23 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 18:41:23 EST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:121416 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:17372 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:17372 videoxfer writes: > On 2004-03-01, Piet van Oostrum wrote: > > Well, I don't. The main reason is that I would loose the Alt-keyboard > > function which gives me acces to non-ASCII characters, like the Euro sign > > and accented characters. > > > True. You _can_ still enter many accented latin1-specific characters > with the option key even if option is bound to meta. For instance I > can use opt-u in the usual mac way to enter ü, ö etc. In fact I just > did. But as you say, you can't get at everything this way, for > instance I can't use opt-s to enter ß (I did insert-ss to enter that > one). I am seeing blocks/rectangles (default glyphs?) rather than proper charcter glyphs in my Carbon Emacs build. Is there a way for me to fix that? I am running a fairly recent CVS compile. I don't recall the date of my last checkout, but this has been a problem for a while now. -- Those who do not remember the history of Lisp are doomed to repeat it, badly.