Re: Telling Emacs how to use Alt as Meta

[Christoph Groth <cgroth@gmx.net>]

Joerg Johannes <liste_joerg@gmx.de> writes:

> Hi there
> 
> Emacs is using the windows key as "meta". I'd like to use Alt instead,
> because I'm used to it from when I was running SuSE and RedHat. Is there
> an emacs-specific command for the .emacs file to do that?

I can understand you.  The next keyboard I'll buy won't have those
nasty keys.

What about declaring your Alt-Keys in XF86Config as Meta?  This
snippet is taken from the Keyboard section of my /etc/X11/XF86Config

<snippet>
LeftAlt     Meta
RightAlt    Meta
</snippet>

I'm sure there is some way to get this behavior with elisp, too, but
why bother?

hope this helps,
Christoph