Emacs Using Option as meta key
Emacs Using Option as meta key
- Subject: Emacs Using Option as meta key
- From: Perry Smith via X11-users <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2022 21:34:02 -0500
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For Emacs running directly on my Mac, I use an Emacs compiled for the Mac which
essentially uses NextStep for the display system. In that set up, I have the
option key used as meta so I hit option-X rather than command-X to get M-X.
I now have a FreeBSD system with emacs from their packaging system. I start
Quartz on the Mac, open an X11 terminal, ssh over to the BSD system with X11
forwarding, and then start emacs which appears as an X11 client on my Mac. So
far so good.
The hiccup is it wants to use command-X for M-X instead of my preference of
option-X. What is really odd is option-<key> produces greek. So option-W
option-X produces Ω≈
I see the XQuartz Preferences and the Input tab and I’ve fumbled around each of
the four buttons and none seem to address this issue. Indeed, the Ω≈ output
makes me think it isn’t XQuartz that is doing it but the macOS system itself —
but why only for XQuarts?
Anyhow… I *think* this isn’t an emacs issue but an X11 / XQuartz / macOS
preferences question so I’m asking here first.
Thank you for your time
Perry
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