Re: Meta key for 'emacs -nw'
* On 2016 01 Feb 20:07 -0600, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Feb 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>
> >:-) "There are no dumb questions. Only dumb answers."
>
> Okay. Here's one -- I was going to post it in gnu.emacs.help, but you
> changed my mind! Emacs running in X honors Alt as its Meta key. But if I
> launch 'emacs -nw' to avoid running in X that understanding (Meta == Alt)
> evaporates. Perhaps I need to set something specific in my .emacs for the
> minibuffer?
>
> I've got amd64 Jessie running without systemd and icewm for X.
I don't have an answer, however, I am using Emacs -nw to type this
message calling it from Mutt and running in Xfce Terminal and
Alt-X. etc, works just fine.
What I've not sat down and figured out is how to use Ctl-Left/Right to
navigate word left/right but use Alt-B/F instead. Even Bash will allow
the Ctl variants.
- Nate
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