{"id":4,"date":"2008-02-27T06:21:16","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T06:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rtechblog.psg.com\/?p=4"},"modified":"2008-02-27T06:21:16","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T06:21:16","slug":"emacs-on-macos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rtechblog.rg.net\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"Emacs on MacOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The native Emacs seemed not to have a meta key.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 I kept tweaking my .Xmodmap to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>The general advice on the net was to install 22.1 using MacPorts.\u00a0 So I went down that path.\u00a0 MacPorts installed, though it required XTools, which was a bit of a pig.\u00a0 Then I build 22.1.\u00a0 It did not seem to support the meta key!<\/p>\n<p>A co-worker who was also at the APNIC meeting in Taipei said just install Carbon Emacs.\u00a0 So I Googled it and installed it, and it worked under X11 and native MacOs.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, now i want to rip out MacTools etc., but am not sure how to do so safely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The native Emacs seemed not to have a meta key.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 I kept tweaking my .Xmodmap to no avail. The general [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-macintosh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtechblog.rg.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtechblog.rg.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtechblog.rg.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtechblog.rg.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtechblog.rg.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rtechblog.rg.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtechblog.rg.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtechblog.rg.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtechblog.rg.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}