[OS X Emacs] Aquamacs Meta key

Jean-Christophe Helary jean.christophe.helary at gmail.com
Tue Mar 14 17:44:12 EDT 2017


> On Mar 15, 2017, at 5:18, Stephen Anderson <sra at yale.edu> wrote:
> 
> I’m quite used to the “option-as-meta” way of life, but on the other hand I also need the option key to get special characters on the Mac keyboard.  Aquamacs provides a straightforward way of having my cake while eating it: I have the right alt modifier (the right option key) customized as “No modifier” while the left alt modifier is customized as Meta.  You have to dig around a little in the emacs customization buffers to find this, but it works fine.

Some keyboards do not have a right Option key. The only thing I have on my MBP JIS keyboard is a right Command and a right Shift (and a Fn) key.

Jean-Christophe 


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