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It's actually Meta, emulated by an ESC character by the terminal. OSX tip: check "use Option as Meta" in Terminal's preferences, and you can keep Option pressed
by lloeki 12y ago
It's actually Meta, emulated by an ESC character by the terminal. OSX tip: check "use Option as Meta" in Terminal's preferences, and you can keep Option pressed while you mash ".".
- akirk 12y agoWhich is fine if you never need to generate characters using the Option key. For example on a German keyboard you need the Option key to write { or }.
- lloeki 12y agoI'm on a french layout so I know :-) It also has the side effect of "resurrecting" dead keys (which are unrelated to Option), making input of 'ê'and 'ï' impossible. An alternative is using iTerm2 which has a similar setting, liberally applyable to either Option key.