Comments on: Redefine the X11 Meta Key in Mac OS X

By: Maks

Maks — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:21:25 +0000

Same here, I wanted TeXmacs badly. Thanks for the article!

By: Kris

Kris — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:05:05 +0000

Sure Bob, I use it too. My problem *was* TeXmacs (as cool as you can have for typing math). Thanks Tyler, greeting Down Under :-))

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:33:21 +0000

You could of course, just use AquaEmacs (http://aquamacs.org/)

By: Thulasinathan Kandasamy

Thulasinathan Kandasamy — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 01:55:03 +0000

Mapping alt/option key to meta key woks just cool for me as well. Thanks

By: Christian

Christian — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:36:00 +0000

Hi there,

mapping meta to alt just works fine for me, too. But there is a large problem for people with a german keyboard layout: you need to type Alt-N to get ~ and Alt-L to get an @. But I am not able to type these 2 signs anymore, if I don’t have an alt key any longer. Are there any suggestions for this? Could I somehow map the key right to the right command key to be an alt key? And would this again be translated to meta?

By: Mahesh

Mahesh — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:55:14 +0000

very helpful. thanks for the article. .Xmodmap change is helping me a lot while navigating in the bash interactive shell.
–mahesh n

By: Olga

Olga — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:36:59 +0000

Denali, thanks for your tip! It solved my problem.

Olga

By: Denali Lumma

Denali Lumma — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:51:24 +0000

Hi There,

You need to configure the mac ‘terminal’ application so the ‘alt / option’ key sends ‘meta’. In order to do this, go to:

Terminal > Preferences > Settings > Keyboard

and select the ‘Use option as meta key’ checkbox at the bottom of the window.

I hope that helps,

-Denali

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By: Randy Bushq

Randy Bushq — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:26:50 +0000

i LIKE meta being apple key. but why is it not working in emacs? lack of meta in emacs is killing me!

[ long time bsd/emacs user with new macbook ]