Carbon.

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an deichiú lá de mí Eanair, scríobh Rodney Sparapani: 

 > Aidan Kehoe wrote:
 > > 
 > > It’s not practical though, since for most keys option + key generates a
 > > distinct key versus the key on its own in the standard Mac maps. 
 > > (Things like œ ˙ é ® þ ¥ for q w e r t z on the German layout.) And
 > > there’s no good way to draw a distinction between option + 4, which
 > > generates € and is necessary for the user, and option + f, which
 > > generates ƒ and really isn’t.
 > > 
 > > The Aquamacs people approach this in a very ad-hoc way, with per-language
 > > tables--see
 > > http://google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=file%3Aemulate-mac-keyboard-mode%5C.el%24
 > > 
 > > I suppose though a rule of thumb would be ‘if the character generated
 > > with option both:
 > > 
 > > 1. Differs from the character generated without option and
 > > 2. Is either ASCII (because our users are programmers) or is necessary to
 > > write the currently active language
 > > 
 > > then option + char-without-option should generate char-with-option;
 > > otherwise option + char-without-option should generate
 > > M-char-without-option.’ The information on the characters necessary to
 > > write a language is available in the language-specific Quail tables,
 > > though it is incomplete right now.
 > > 
 > > This is horrible. 
 > 
 > I've just starting using Emacs.app for OS X.  And, it works the way I 
 > would expect.  You can set whichever key that you want to for Meta 
 > (default alt/option) and still use the Apple/Command key (recognized as 
 > super). 
 >
 > And, it allows you to do Mule without the problems of Aquamacs. 

How so? 

 > Instead of Carbon, it uses Cocoa/OpenStep/NextStep/whatever you want to
 > call it. Maybe this would be a better basis for the XEmacs port to OS X. 
 > I know, patches welcome... But, if anyone is interested, it can be found
 > at http://emacs-app.sourceforge.net/
 > 
 > Right now, everything seems to work except 2-finger scrolling.

What do you mean by ‘2-finger scrolling?’ 

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