iTerm.app

Diedrich has posted a patch for this feature at
http://www.tux4web.de/2007/05/01/quick-and-dirty-hack-command-key-as-meta-in-iterm/

+1

This is a must-have. I hate having to press Esc-b just to move left one
word (not to mention Emacs w/o meta..ugh)

In Terminal.app, the only way of having meta is by losing the option key,
which makes it impossible to type |, ~ or \ on my keyboard, seriously! Not
gonna happen.

Having a Mac terminal program with a _configurable_ meta key would be
heaven. Just... make it an option.. left-command, right-command, Fn, ctrl,
caps, right-shift, whatever..

This feature would really make iterm the best terminal out there for osx.
I've been waiting a long time for this feature, please add it in next
release. For emacs and for word forward/backward in bash, this is crucial.

Best regards / Anton

I too would like to opt for this, it would be really cool!

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This is a critical feature. At least GLTerm can be customized to make the
command-key (aka apple key) behave as meta (by editing the keys.txt in the
application package). It would be cool to have iterm as an alternative.

This is the feature I dream about in a terminal application. I slog
through
my day using X11 "xterm".

My ideal functionality is this:

Command (Apple) key is mapped to meta. Ideally, it would be possible to
*selectively*
allow a few command keys to function normally (mostly command-c and
command-v, although
I can see times when I would not want pure-meta without those keys).

Note: I don't want option as meta key, I want command. If you are a
hard-core emacs
user, then it's impossible to escape the muscle memory that demands the
key next to
space is the meta key.

Anyhow, this would get me running iterm.

This is a critical feature for avid shell users--I can't understand how
people developing a terminal program cannot be going insane that it isn't
working. Every time I try to hit meta-> to get to the end of a document, I
want to pull my teeth out :). Some menu shortcuts need to still be
available, such as new tab, close tab, copy, and paste. It would be fine
if these worked off alt, such as alt-t, alt-w, alt-c, etc. But being able
to do meta-f, meta-b, meta->, meta-< and the like is just critical--not to
mention how broken things become when opening a terminal version of Emacs.
Speaking of which, Emacs on OS X does this properly, so they might server
as a good example to follow.

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Holy Cow! How can this be open for 3 years with no hint of a resolution?
This is a HUGE deal - please add this feature. Pretty Please.

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I agree! Please at least make this an option. I realize it
would break Apple's UI guidelines, so don't enable it by
default, but at least give us the option.

I'm used to Meta being right next to the spacebar. Not sort
of near the spacebar, but right next to it. It kills me to
not be able to move forward and backward by a word with
Command-f and Command-b in a shell or in Emacs.

C'mon, please throw all us Unix geeks converting to Mac a
little help. :)

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+1

This would a really handy feature to have.

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I want to add another vote for this.

Constantly closing windows on remote machines is my only
problem with Terminal.app, but it's bad enough to make me go
looking for an alternative. I'm going to grab source and see
if I can figure it out, but I haven't done much OS X
development yet.

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YES PLEASE !! Command-key (or better left command-key) to META would help
all
those who come from a PC keyboard and will never relearn typing

option to meta is also good, but then I have no option key left (need that
for
some special chars), I mapped the return key to option (uControl) but if I
use
Option as Meta, return will also be Meta.

The thing is: I NEED return as option in osx (not only iTerm), so I done
this via
uControll, now it would be very nice to have a Meta-key in iTerm left to
the
spacebar (cmd or opt), but only there (not touching the right cmd, or the

remapped return(now opt) key )

where can I donate, and how much it will cost ?
itsf@seb.exse.net

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I'll voice my support for this config option. As a Linux, Emacs and
bash user for the last 10 years, I find myself cursing every time I
try to skip forward or back a word in the shell using iTerm.

Pretty please?

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I do hope so!

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alt-ctrl as a meta-key would work great!

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gnufoo.org's uControl offers a way to swap any modifier key
(including caps lock) with any other modifier key. I use it
to make the enter key on my PBG4 into another Function key.
(very handy for lefties like me)

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I too would love this feature.
emacs (21.3.50, not the one that ships with mac os) will treat command
as meta if you ask it to. But I can't do everything I want under the emacs

shell mode;
sometimes i want a real terminal.
But none of the existing terminal emulators (Terminal, glterm, iterm,
etc.)
offer this.
osx does offer alternative keyboard layout definitions in xml, but i don't

want
to remap the keyboard, i just want certain apps to intercept command.

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I would like to add my vote for this one. Frankly, once you
get your terminal emulation set up (i.e. transparency etc.)
I find that I rarely use the hotkeys of command-w, command-N.

Perhaps the solution would be to add 'swap command and option'.

steven &lt;AT&gt; obsidiansunrise.net

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