Re: Emacs meta-key

[Richard Klinda <ignotus@freemail.hu>]

Hoi Nick!

  Nick> I installed potato on another machine (without going through slink). The
  Nick> alt-key won't function as meta in Emacs on this one. I've used xev to
  Nick> check. Sure enough alt is there, but not for Emacs.

Load xkeycaps and set one of your alts modifier to Mod4 (which is meta).

  Nick> A related question: The .Xresources seems to get ignored by emacs when it
  Nick> loads, even though netscape pays attention to the .Xresources file. ( I do
  Nick> the xrdb -merge .Xresources, btw).

Hmm, it works fine here (I use woody to).

,---- .Xresources
| xemacs*Background: DarkSlateGray
| xemacs*Foreground: darkgray
| 
| xemacs.geometry: 84x34+9+16
`----

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