mac - Homebrew CLI Emacs inserting ¯ when I press M-<

07
2014-07
  • apennebaker

    When I try to navigate to the start of a buffer with M-<, Emacs instead inserts a weird character ¯. How should I correct Emacs or Terminal.app to fix this?

    $ specs emacs brew bash os
Specs:

specs 0.4
https://github.com/mcandre/specs#readme

emacs --version
GNU Emacs 24.3.1
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You may redistribute copies of Emacs
under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.

brew --version
0.9.4

bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.48(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin12)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType | grep 'System Version'
      System Version: OS X 10.8.4 (12E55)

    Update

    Aha!

    Terminal -> Preferences... -> Settings -> (profile) -> Keyboard -> Use option as meta key

    • Answers
  • hoosierEE

    Eh, why not?

    Terminal -> Preferences... -> Settings -> (profile) -> Keyboard -> Use option as meta key

    Source: Homebrew CLI Emacs inserting ¯ when I press M-<


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    $ bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.48(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin10.0)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

    I am using Mac OS X 10.6


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  • John T

    You should be able to use:

    set completion-ignore-case on

    add it to /etc/inputrc.

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    Building on @ClayBridges' comment: To make the setting persistent, as an alternative to editing ~/.inputrc or /etc/inputrc, you can add

    bind "set completion-ignore-case on"

    to a shell profile file such as ~/.bash_profile.

    Note that such commands in your profile take precedence over any defined in either /etc/inputrc or ~/.inputrc.

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    bind "set show-all-if-ambiguous on"

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