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Re: New user - can't get Meta-tab to work on OS X [message #33072 is a reply to message #33071]

Fri, 06 December 2002 12:58

psisquared
Messages: 5
Registered: December 2002

Junior Member

In <Pine.GHP.4.32.0212061530240.7774-100000@icesat2.gsfc.nasa.gov> Jeff
Guerber wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, psisquared wrote:
>
>> Thanks! Sounds like it's working for you. Maybe someone can tell me
>> what I'm doing wrong. I enter in the following into my .emacs: ;;
>> Use the option key for META (setq mac-command-key-is-meta nil)
>> :: :: Bind idlwave-complete to ESC TAB, which also works for Meta-
>> :: :: Tab when
> ^^ ^^
>> ;; Meta is set to Option
>> (add-hook 'idlwave-mode-hook
>> (lambda ()
>> (define-key idlwave-mode-map "\M-\C-i" 'idlwave-complete)))
>>
>> The option key part definitely works because I've been using that for
>> a while. When I start up Emacs I get the following error: An error
>> has occurred while loading `/Users/rcohen/.emacs':
>>
>> Symbol's value as variable is void: Bind
>> [...]
>> Is there a syntax error someone sees in the binding above to idlwave-
>> complete?
>
> Perhaps the fact that the line that reads "Bind idlwave-complete to
> ESC TAB...", apparently intended as a comment, has with colons (":")
> instead of semicolons (";")?
>
> Jeff Guerber
>
>
Oops. Yep, that was it. Sorry, when you're still very new to things it's
easy to assume there is some fundamental problem rather than a silly
typo. Thanks for pointing it out. Everything seems to now be working
with the two additions to my .emacs file above. Meta-tab, with Meta set
to Option under OSX now works. Thanks to everyone who helped!

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		Re: New user - can't get Meta-tab to work on OS X By: Jeff Guerber on Fri, 06 December 2002 13:00
		Re: New user - can't get Meta-tab to work on OS X By: psisquared on Fri, 06 December 2002 12:58
		Re: New user - can't get Meta-tab to work on OS X By: Jeff Guerber on Fri, 06 December 2002 12:39
		Re: New user - can't get Meta-tab to work on OS X By: psisquared on Fri, 06 December 2002 11:27
		Re: New user - can't get Meta-tab to work on OS X By: Carsten Dominik on Fri, 06 December 2002 05:05
		Re: New user - can't get Meta-tab to work on OS X By: Carsten Dominik on Fri, 06 December 2002 00:31
		Re: New user - can't get Meta-tab to work on OS X By: JD Smith on Wed, 04 December 2002 18:33
		Re: New user - can't get Meta-tab to work on OS X By: psisquared on Tue, 03 December 2002 21:58
		Re: New user - can't get Meta-tab to work on OS X By: JD Smith on Tue, 03 December 2002 20:13
		Re: New user - can't get Meta-tab to work on OS X By: psisquared on Tue, 03 December 2002 12:01
		Re: New user - can't get Meta-tab to work on OS X By: Dick Jackson on Tue, 03 December 2002 11:04

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