From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nikolaj Schumacher Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Can't remap option key in Mac OS X Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:26:13 +0200 Message-ID: References: <268D920B-650A-4FCA-96CA-012B26566757@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207243615 26172 80.91.229.12 (3 Apr 2008 17:26:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 17:26:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Christos Chryssochoidis To: Peter Dyballa Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 03 19:27:18 2008 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 4.50) id 1JhTDV-0001T8-Nh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:27:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JhTCt-0001ql-5Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:26:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JhTCd-0001qg-CY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:26:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JhTCb-0001qB-K5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:26:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JhTCb-0001q2-Ga for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:26:17 -0400 Original-Received: from fmmailgate02.web.de ([217.72.192.227]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JhTCb-0004a2-99 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:26:17 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp05.web.de (fmsmtp05.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.4.166]) by fmmailgate02.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA9B9D76812C; Thu, 3 Apr 2008 19:26:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [77.135.24.178] (helo=thursday) by smtp05.web.de with asmtp (WEB.DE 4.109 #226) id 1JhTCZ-000435-00; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:26:15 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Peter Dyballa's message of "Fri\, 28 Mar 2008 19\:27\:57 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.92 (darwin) X-Sender: n_schumacher@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+Rc2QxJ/UVlvSpNP7wWp7LVLhZq4+1zhTOfNjx urULZoVW+HJcyJ9zt6ixRhgg96AyNgXmsKj2EIeJbxN6pGDgPI keyhaq9LzhakFnIf5yQg== X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:53019 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa wrote: > Am 28.03.2008 um 15:05 schrieb Christos Chryssochoidis: >>> Do you mean /usr/bin/emacs? I don't think that you can do anything like that >>> you intend with it ... >>> >> >> Yes, I meant the command line emacs. In the Emacs manual that I have >> it says something like that in Appendix F.1 "Keyboard and Mouse Input >> on Mac". > > Even if this version (or any other) of GNU Emacs knows about the variables > mac-pass-option-to-system and mac-option-modifier it's not likely that you > could achieve what you try: Emacs runs in Terminal as a guest. The host, > Terminal, xterm, whatsoever, receives all (modified) input first. Exactly. Terminal.app turns the option key into a meta key. It even has a preference setting "Use option as meta key". If that is disabled /usr/bin/emacs should work as expected by the original poster out of the box. regards, Nikolaj Schumacher