Emacs keys differences between console and X

[Andreas Tille <tille@physik.uni-halle.de>]

Hello,

I use Emacs at the console (I have an 486/33 :-() and under X.

I've done some key bindings in my .emacs (more detailed in an
*.el file called from .emacs but this is not the point):

(global-set-key [C-left]      'backward-word)
(global-set-key [C-right]     'forward-word)
(global-set-key [C-prior]     'beginning-of-buffer)
(global-set-key [C-next]      'end-of-buffer)

(global-set-key [C-backspace] 'backward-kill-word)
(global-set-key [C-delete]    'kill-word)
(global-set-key [M-backspace] 'backward-kill-sentence)
(global-set-key [M-delete]    'kill-sentence)

Well, this works fine under X :-). But under X the <Alt>-key
refuses to work as Meta. In any case I have to press <ESC>-... .

While working at the console my <Alt>-key works fina as Meta,
but the key bindings mentioned above don't work. <C-x> or any
<C-[a-z]> works fine but it seems me that the Control key didn't
work together with other special keys.  A hint for this
behaviour is that <C-h k><CTRL-LeftArrow> says that <left>
was pressed (the same when trying <C-h k><CTRL-F?> seems only
the F?-key to be pressed).

So the question is: How to enable the <Alt> as Meta under X and
how to make a differnce between for instance <CTRL-LeftArrow> and
<LeftArrow>?

Thanks in advance

  Andreas.



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