<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 11 Mar 2017, at 20:27, Iliya Lefterov <<a href="mailto:iliya.lefterov@gmail.com" class="">iliya.lefterov@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">What was the reason you stopped using Emacs?<br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 11, 2017, at 3:13 PM, Elliott Roper <<a href="mailto:elliott@yrl.co.uk" class="">elliott@yrl.co.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sorry Ilya, I did not realise how my post would look to someone for whom English was not their first language. I have not stopped using Emacs at all. I'm still learning and liking Emacs in its Aquamacs form very much. I was trying to explain to 7stud that the C-; command was useful to someone used to MacOS keyboard shortcuts and should not be removed even to make things easier for us beginners.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you were asking why I use Aquamacs rather than raw Emacs in Terminal it is because Aquamacs integrates with MacOS and related facilities like AucTeX rather elegantly.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you refer to my "I have abandoned making sense of the code in "emulate-mac-keyboard-mode.el" remark, what I meant was that I currently know very little elisp and I was trying to understand:-</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(define-key menu-bar-option-key-menu [option-to-system]</div><div class=""> `(menu-item "Option for composed characters "</div><div class=""> toggle-mac-option-modifier </div><div class="">;; not yet known. :key-sequence [(,osxkeys-command-key \;)]</div><div class=""> :visible (boundp 'mac-option-modifier)</div><div class=""> :help "Toggle whether to let Option key behave as Emacs key, </div><div class="">do not let it produce special characters (passing the key to the system)."</div><div class=""> :button (:toggle . (not mac-option-modifier))))</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">because I don't know what :visible, :button and :toggle do. I can guess, but not well enough to use them correctly. …yet <grin></div><div class=""> </div>regards,</div><div class="">Elliott</div>
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