Marc Abramowitz » Mapping Alt in OS X X11.app to Emacs Meta

3/9/2006

March 09th 2006 Posted to General, Mac

Thanks to a comment at this macosxhints post, I’ve not got the Alt key mapped to Meta in Emacs.

defaults write com.apple.x11 swap_alt_meta -boolean true

and then restart X11.app. Voila!

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