Re: Emacs-24.5-1-universal.dmg for macosx dumps on first keystroke

[Randy Bush]

>> As a quick fix for you, Randy, instead of using "alt", use 'alt. That
>> works as you’d expect. I still need to work out why this crashes,
>> though. Presumably something somewhere is looking for a symbol and
>> really doesn’t like getting a string instead.
> 
> I've had a look about and am currently none the wiser. Is there a
> standard way of handling this sort of thing in C code? Is it just a
> case of putting some sort of SYMBOLP check in before the variable is
> used or should we be able to handle a string instead of a symbol?

i concluded that, although a string may have worked in 1948, i should
use `meta in the modern age

randy