From: Bob Hutchison Date: 2006-03-20T22:49:57+09:00 Subject: Re: [OT] Using emacs on Apple's PowerBook On Mar 20, 2006, at 2:27 AM, Dae San Hwang wrote: > On Mar 20, 2006, at 2:27 PM, Nicolas Kassis wrote: >> I feel you pain. To add to this, I really can't figure out how to >> make the alt key become the Meta key in the terminal based emacs. >> I added the >> (setq mac-command-key-is-meta nil) >> but nothing works neither the apple key or the alt key is the meta >> key. Did I miss something? > > From Terminal.app's menu select "Terminal" -> "Window Settings..." > > Then from the drop down menu, choose "Keyboard" and check "Use > option as meta key". Then press "Use settings as Defaults". elisp > configuration for modifier keys only works for GUI based emacs. > > I guess we really need some central repository of information for > Mac OS X emacs users.. In the mean time, you might want to refer > to http://www.macosxhints.com > > best, > daesan I'm not an emacs user, I've tried but I've been using vi-like stuff since 1977 or something so... what can I say. However, the lisp community is full of emacs types and OS X types with a significant population of both. The lengths some of these guys will go is quite astonishing. Bill Clementson, aside from having a great blog, has a bunch of entries about running emacs on OS/X (see , , , and for one series of articles). Anyway, these guys in the lisp community have lots to say about it. I know that a lot of people remap the keys and move the key tops on their keyboard to match (but do this only after *carefully* considering what will happen if you break one of the *tiny* attachments things on a powerbook/powermac key -- in other words, don't). If you want to run an X11 version of emacs you can pretty much do anything you like, but it is going to be a pain to use (e.g. the clip board in X11 is different than the one in OS X). The other thing to consider is using something like aquamacs -- a lot of lisp folks have capitulated and gone that route. Most are relatively happy, I guess it compensates leaving the terminal with integration to OS X. Good luck. Cheers, Bob ---- Bob Hutchison -- blogs at Recursive Design Inc. -- Raconteur -- xampl for Ruby --