[OS X Emacs] lost alt-key at meta-key and funny characters.

Roy Lowrance roy.lowrance at gmail.com
Sun Oct 19 22:12:33 EDT 2008


That's it! Thanks!

Roy

On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Nathaniel Cunningham
<nathaniel.cunningham at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Roy Lowrance <roy.lowrance at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> My Aquamacs session starts of fine, with the alt key working as the meta
>> key.
>>
>> Somehow, I end up with the alt key inserting exotic characters into my
>> buffer and for meta, only the ESC key works.
>>
>> I'm obviously doing something to cause this, but what? And how to avoid?
>
> You're probably hitting Cmd-; at some point -- this is bound to
> toggle-mac-option-modifier.
>
> I hit that inadvertently sometimes, when I'm trying for Cmd-'
> (comment-or-uncomment-region-or-line)
>
> You can correct it by repeating the same keystroke.
>
> --Nathaniel
>
>
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