Emacs on MacOS

February 27, 2008 at 06:21 · Filed under Macintosh

The native Emacs seemed not to have a meta key.  While this might be fine for amateurs, it is definitely not fine for hard-core Emacs users. The lack of meta seemed to be the case irrespective of whether it was under MacOS or under X11.  I kept tweaking my .Xmodmap to no avail.

The general advice on the net was to install 22.1 using MacPorts.  So I went down that path.  MacPorts installed, though it required XTools, which was a bit of a pig.  Then I build 22.1.  It did not seem to support the meta key!

A co-worker who was also at the APNIC meeting in Taipei said just install Carbon Emacs.  So I Googled it and installed it, and it worked under X11 and native MacOs.

Of course, now i want to rip out MacTools etc., but am not sure how to do so safely.

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