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I tried my best to find a solution to my problem in internet. I gave up looking. I am trying learning emacs on a mac. There are symbols I normally type by using the alt key. However in emacs I do not have access to them (in my german keyboard layout, @ is accessed by alt-l) How can I access these symbols in emacs?

Phaernos
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This is simple: set the Cmd key as Meta and let Alt key as Alt in your init.el file - use these:

(setq ns-alternate-modifier              'alt
      ns-command-modifier                'meta
      ns-function-modifier               'hyper
      ns-right-alternate-modifier        nil)   ;; Act as AltGR, for "|"

Take care of right Alt, it may be modified by lsp-mode if you use it. These are for German keyboard, not German Standard.

Ian
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  • Great! It worked perfectly! Many thanks. I am now learning customizing init.el files. – Phaernos Nov 02 '21 at 19:04
  • I tried this in an American Keyboard using Brazilian Portuguese Input... But it did not workout: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/72953/why-i-cant-type-things-such-as-and-in-emacs-with-my-macos-running-brazi – Pedro Delfino Aug 23 '22 at 19:52