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videoxfer writes:

> 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

Usually M-u is bound to upcase-word. If you simply set option to be
meta, that is what you get.

(Alt and option are names for the same key.)