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+title: "emacs mac umlauts"
+seo_description: "How to type umlauts in emacs on mac"
+date: 2021-11-05T13:50:36+01:00
+draft: false
+snippet_types:
+- emacs
+---
+
+Recently I've been writing a lot for the German side of my personal site. When typing in German 
+I perfer to use the English QWERTY keyboard and just alt-u-u to type "ü". The problem I was having
+was emacs would intercept this and execute the capitalize-word function 😞. After some digging into
+my configs, ~/.doom.d/config.el, I was able to unset **M-u** only problem is it still didn't activate
+the mac system umlaut feature.
+
+```emacs
+(global-unset-key (kbd "M-u"))
+```
+
+Finally after some more digging I found:
+
+```emacs
+(setq ns-alternate-modifier 'none
+      ns-right-alternate-modifier 'meta)
+```
+
+It works by un-assigning the left alt to meta, allowing the system keyboard feature to kick in.
+
+source: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/61019/umlauts-in-emacs-on-mac