<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></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 Mar 12, 2017, at 10:48, 7stud <<a href="mailto:7stud@excite.com" class="">7stud@excite.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">I still believe the default should be that the Meta key can never change by typing anything--if you want the Option key to serve multiple functions, you should have to add something to your Preferences.el.</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">You get things the wrong way.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">OPTION on Macs has a clearly defined function and it is *not* META.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">META is a key that does not exist on modern keyboards and it is usually assigned to ESC.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Some people didn't like ESC as META so they tried to use OPTION but found that it conflicted with the original design. Hence the various settings that still allow Aquamacs to behave the Mac way when necessary.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I'm using emacs and Aquamacs with ESC as META and I'm perfectly fine with that.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jean-Christophe </div></body></html>