With quoted-insert
(C-q
) I can enter ‘Option-something’ extended characters, but Emacs apparently understands them as ISO 8859-1. Meanwhile, MacOS has its own layout for these characters (changed with the input language or custom layouts), and there's a cheatsheet in the form of ‘Keyboard viewer.’
Is there any way to make Emacs use the same layout for M-something
in quoted-insert
as native applications do?
I could conceivably edit a keymap by hand to reflect the system one, but 1) I don't see a mention of a special keymap for quoted-insert
, and 2) I'd prefer not to.
Apparently Emacs does receive native characters if Option
keys aren't set up as Meta
, however I don't have an abundance of modifier keys on my keyboard so I'd prefer to keep Option
as Meta
and use quoted-insert
when needed.
Meta
fromOption
apparently lets one use native special characters, and realized that I could probably make a wrapper that does the unmapping and then launchesquoted-insert
. Will try that and post results.