Re: Meta key for 'emacs -nw'

[Don Armstrong <don@debian.org>]

On Mon, 01 Feb 2016, 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?

You probably want:

XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true 

or the equivalent in your shell.

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Don Armstrong                      http://www.donarmstrong.com