- http://emacsformacosx.com = “GNU Emacs For Mac OS X” – this is the emacs, I am referring to here.
OS X and emacs use the “alt” key differently, so how do I achieve on OS X within emacs what I usually achieve with “alt“, like entering “[” through alt-5?
I sacrificed the right “alt” key to work the Mac OS X way (by setting ns-right-alternate-modifier to none), and the left “alt” key to work the emacs way.
Enter this within your emacs (from emacsformacosx.com) on OS X:
M-x customize-group ns
“ns” is the customization group for “GNUstep/Mac OS X specific features”.
bdecaf suggested that in a thread on stackoverflow.com:
Now I can enter “[” on my Austrian/German Mac keyboard through (right) alt-5.
I had waited far to long, before thoroughly investigating this.
Update 2013-01-07:
This article attracted far too much SPAM, so I had to disable commenting.