From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim McNamara Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs on OS X - configuration package Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 17:01:41 -0600 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=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1078200704 3209 80.91.224.253 (2 Mar 2004 04:11:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 04:11:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 02 05:11:36 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 1Ay1Fo-00045l-00 for ; Tue, 02 Mar 2004 05:11:36 +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 1Ay1FN-0000dJ-TB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2004 23:11:09 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!priapus.visi.com!orange.octanews.net!news-out.visi.com!petbe.visi.com!news.octanews.net!gemini.bitstream.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+AEJ9DoIn+YskHUwr042BXVxQEQ= Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: d0b43094.news.bitstream.net Original-X-Trace: 1078182101 gemini.bitstream.net 436 216.243.177.155 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@bitstream.net Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:121414 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:17370 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:17370 Stefan Monnier writes: >> Actually, under OS X 10.3.2, built from CVS using Andrew Choi's >> patches (./configure --without-aqua --with-x) > > I assume you mean Emacs's CVS repository, but I don' know what > patches you're referring to. Andrew Choi committed patches to Savannah for Emacs to be optionally built as a Carbon application for Mac OS X quite some time ago, and was the maintainer of this until November. Without these patches, AFAIK, Emacs can't be built for Carbon and the Aqua interface. >> neither the Cmd key nor the Alt key function as Meta. Only the Esc >> key is available as Meta. I *think* the problem is aactually in >> Apple's X11; Cmd or Alt worked as Meta under XDarwin and OroborOSX >> in OS X 10.1.5. In fact, Cmd-w results in trying to exit Emacs and >> getting dialog boxes about saving buffers and newsrc-dribble. > > Under X11 with OS X 10.3.2 my Apple key is mapped to Meta by > default. This is completely independent of Emacs, of course, and > can simply be checked with `xev'. Are you sure your problems aren't > due to some xmodmap fiddling? I've never touched xmodmap. It's all vanilla in this regard. >> had the mouse wheel work under Aqua builds (and again I think this >> is an Apple problem; the scroll wheel doesn't work in other X11 >> windows either). > > My wheel works fine under X11 on OS X 10.3.2, as does the > fn+touchpad trick provided by the `ucontrol' utility. Maybe I'm > just lucky, Perhaps a hardware issue? I'm running this on a Rev B iMac.