[OS X Emacs] [Aquamacs] CMD + ^ doesn't work in a new nightly

Moritz Ulrich ulrich.moritz at googlemail.com
Mon Jul 6 16:16:07 EDT 2009


Hello,

thank you for the report. It looks like it's really an issue with the
German keyboard layout.


On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:19 PM, David Reitter<david.reitter at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 6, 2009, at 6:29 AM, Moritz Ulrich wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've switched to an Aquamacs nightly (2009-Jul-05) recently.
>> Since then the shortcut Cmd + ^ (Meta + ^) doesn't work anymore. It
>> should join the current line with the one above.
>
> I can't reproduce.
>
> Meta-^ works fine for me (with an English keyboard layout)
>
> Note that in Aquamacs, Meta-^ does NOT correspond to Command-^, unless you
> change the configuration from what is pre-set.
>
> M-^ is Option-^.
>
>
>> I think it's important to mention that I'm on a German keyboard, so
>> that I have to type ^<space> to actually get '^'. I would get 'ô' of I
>> would press ^o.
>
>
> I didn't think that ^ was a dead key, unless you use Option-i for that.
>
> Now, if I remember correctly, Emacs (NS) has a bug that will prevent dead
> keys from being recognized in some cases.  Maybe that's what this is.
>
> Are you actually pressing  ^ (does a German keyboard still have a key for
> that), or Option-i plus space?
>
> - David
>
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