Mac OS X Meta key? [was: That "vision" thang...]

[Rodney Sparapani]

Aidan Kehoe wrote:
>  Ar an séú lá is fiche de mí Feabhra, scríobh Rodney Sparapani: 
>
>  > Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>  > > New thread: this is a bug, not a bad dream.
>  > > 
>  > 
>  > Well, this has been discussed before; see
>  > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta/25929
>  > (How do you unroll a thread in gmane?)
>
> Click on the subject line. See also 
> http://mid.gmane.org/18199.54743.95071.932876@parhasard.net -- I don’t think
> I heard whether that worked for you or not, though I may not have CCed you. 
>   
Can't remember exactly.  I do remember that I had an awful time retrieving
the patch from the mailing list.  Do people actually use them that way?
You managed to get me one via some other method.  But, I don't think it
worked.  I'll have to try again to make sure.  Are the patches somewhere
else for easy retrieval?
> Anyway, the issue there was the same reason many Windows keyboard people
> hate XEmacs; one important developer with trouble tolerating other users’
> preferred defaults. I still despise the idea of having the behaviour you
> want as a default, and now GNU Emacs running under Cocoa has it as a
> default, and has its own special way of turning it off, independent of their
> Carbon port. There doesn’t seem to be a nice way to implement it :-/ .
>
>  > I don't really consider it a bug per se, I was just hoping that this is 
>  > adopted as a feature request as long as we were talking about the future 
>  > and OS X came up.
>
> Yes, the XEmacs Carbon port should absolutely support what you want in a
> reasonable fashion. Do you think Choi’s variable names are the way to go? 
>   
That would be great.  I think it would be a good idea to keep Andrew's 
variable.
Anybody who has done this in the past will be looking for it.

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Rodney Sparapani      Center for Patient Care & Outcomes Research (PCOR)
Sr. Biostatistician              http://www.mcw.edu/pcor
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