[R-SIG-Mac] R texteditor for mac OS

[Vincent Goulet]

Le ven. 04 juin à 08:55, Steve Lianoglou a écrit :

>> still i have the problem with the curly braces. if I hit alt+8 / alt+9 which is supposed to create curly braces on a mac,
> 
> Hmm ... this is news to me.
> 
> I'm guessing this might be some international keyboard issue? Eg. on
> my (US) keyboard, the curly brace is shift-[ and shift-].

It is. For example, on my French Canadian keyboard, I enter {, }, [, ] with Option-7, 8, 9, 0, respectively. Problem is, by default Emacs on OS X assigns Option to Meta, so what Emacs receives is Meta-7, etc.

My cure for that: use Command for Meta and ditch all the Macish keybindings in Emacs. This is in part what motivated me to build a non-Macified distribution of GNU Emacs for OS X; see

	http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/emacs/mac

So, to assign Command to Meta insert the following in your .emacs file (located in your personal directory):

(setq-default ns-command-modifier 'meta) ; Command is Meta
(setq-default ns-option-modifier 'none)	 ; Option is Option 

Just don't expect Command-C/V/X to work for copy/paste/cut. You'll have to learn the Emacs keybindings (M-w, C-y, C-w). Good thing: these are the same on all Emacsen on all platforms.

Vincent Goulet
École d'actuariat, Université Laval


> 
> I'm not really sure what to tell you if alt-8 is giving you "{" in
> every program but emacs ... I'm sure there's some simple solution.
> 
>> I am switched to the interface below the editor itself.
> 
> You mean the R console running inside emacs?
> 
>> I am it surprised by these issues because I though aquamacs was supposed to run on macs.
> 
> Yes, it only runs on macs, in fact.
> 
> You can find out where to get more aquamacs specific support here:
> http://aquamacs.org/support.shtml
> 
> -- 
> Steve Lianoglou
> Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology
> | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
> | Weill Medical College of Cornell University
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