How to disable keyboard shortcuts in Mac OS X?

Question

I would like to disable keyboard shortcuts Command-W and Command-Q in Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.

This is because they inter

Answer 1

A solution is to configure XQuartz to enable "Option keys send Alt_L and Alt_R" under Preferences/Input.

Then add this to your ~/.emacs:

(setq x-alt-keysym 'meta)

It is not perfect, as you might still slip on Cmd-W instead of Option-W sometimes, but at least it is functional.