Re: Emacs Using Option as meta key
Re: Emacs Using Option as meta key
- Subject: Re: Emacs Using Option as meta key
- From: Don MacQueen via X11-users <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2022 19:50:23 -0700
I’m not expert at all, but it seems to me that it is the remote emacs that is
interpreting your keystrokes, so whatever you modify, it’ll be on the remote
system. Perhaps .emacs, perhaps .Xdefaults (or whatever the FreeBSD system
calls that file). (i.e., tinkering with the local Quartz preferences won’t
help).
Good luck!
Don MacQueen
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> On Mar 30, 2022, at 7:34 PM, Perry Smith via X11-users
> <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> 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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