Re: XEmacs use 'Alt' as 'Meta'
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Joseph A. Martin wrote:
> Hello,
> I feel like this should be a simple thing to do, but I haven't
> been able to figure it out so far. I want XEmacs to my Left Alt key as
> the Meta key. It works like that when I am running XEmacs from the
> console. However, if I run XEmacs from XWindows ESC is my meta key and
> Left-Alt is not recognized by XEmacs. What do I need to change to have
> XEmacs in XWindows use Left-Alt as the Meta key?
Probably something along these lines:
Feed the following from a file to xmodmap:
remove mod1 = Alt_L
keycode 64 = Meta_L
add mod1 = Meta_L
Run "xmodmap" by itself first to see what the mod settings are, and then
"xmodmap -pk | grep Alt" to see where the Alt keys are. You system may be
different.
...RickM...
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