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Re: Emacs on OS X - configuration package
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Tim McNamara |
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Re: Emacs on OS X - configuration package |
Date: |
Mon, 01 Mar 2004 17:01:41 -0600 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3.50 (darwin) |
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> Actually, under OS X 10.3.2, built from CVS using Andrew Choi's
>> patches (./configure --without-aqua --with-x)
>
> I assume you mean Emacs's CVS repository, but I don' know what
> patches you're referring to.
Andrew Choi committed patches to Savannah for Emacs to be optionally
built as a Carbon application for Mac OS X quite some time ago, and
was the maintainer of this until November. Without these patches,
AFAIK, Emacs can't be built for Carbon and the Aqua interface.
>> neither the Cmd key nor the Alt key function as Meta. Only the Esc
>> key is available as Meta. I *think* the problem is aactually in
>> Apple's X11; Cmd or Alt worked as Meta under XDarwin and OroborOSX
>> in OS X 10.1.5. In fact, Cmd-w results in trying to exit Emacs and
>> getting dialog boxes about saving buffers and newsrc-dribble.
>
> Under X11 with OS X 10.3.2 my Apple key is mapped to Meta by
> default. This is completely independent of Emacs, of course, and
> can simply be checked with `xev'. Are you sure your problems aren't
> due to some xmodmap fiddling?
I've never touched xmodmap. It's all vanilla in this regard.
>> had the mouse wheel work under Aqua builds (and again I think this
>> is an Apple problem; the scroll wheel doesn't work in other X11
>> windows either).
>
> My wheel works fine under X11 on OS X 10.3.2, as does the
> fn+touchpad trick provided by the `ucontrol' utility. Maybe I'm
> just lucky,
Perhaps a hardware issue? I'm running this on a Rev B iMac.
- Re: Emacs on OS X - configuration package, (continued)
Re: Emacs on OS X - configuration package, David Steuber, 2004/03/01
Re: Emacs on OS X - configuration package, videoxfer, 2004/03/01
Re: Emacs on OS X - configuration package, Stefan Monnier, 2004/03/01