Re: Off-topic: Making ALT be the META key

To: sjg@sgeertgens.etl.noaa.gov
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org (Debian)
Subject: Re: Off-topic: Making ALT be the META key
From: "David R. Kohel" <kohel@singa.math.nus.sg>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 13:38:06 +0800 (SST)
Message-id: <[🔎] 9707110538.AA03111@singa.math.nus.sg>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.970707081745.30709A-100000@sgeertgens.etl.noaa.gov> from "sjg@sgeertgens.etl.noaa.gov" at Jul 7, 97 08:19:54 am

Did anyone come up with a solution to this one?  

Is this controlled by emacs of X keymapping (or both)?

I had the same problem (with emacs) until it spontaneously corrected 
itself.  

David

>   I recently installed XEmacs, and would like to have it recognize my ALT
> key as the META key (which I thought was supposed to be the default, but
> isn't on my machine). I played around with xmodmap some, but didn't
> accomplish anything useful. This is an i386 platform, so the HP fixes for
> it won't help :) Thanks.


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