[OS X Emacs] How to enter accented characters on US keyboard?

[Jochen Küpper]

On 01.04.2009, at 23:19, <skip at pobox.com> <skip at pobox.com> wrote:

>>> Esc as the Meta key
>
>    Carsten> But typing Escape in front of key combinations is just a  
> really
>    Carsten> bad workaround for not having a meta key, not a real  
> meta key.
>    Carsten> Not acceptable for serious Emacs users...
>
> You must be too young to have used Emacs before the advent of window  
> systems
> then. ;-)


Why's that? On pure ttys Meta is often simply available to the one  
application running, so there's no problem at all in that respect...

Greetings,
Jochen
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