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Re: alt->meta->esc status quo



Do you mean the first or the second solution?  I can only speak for the
first, which works perfectly here and which is _a_ solution according to
Thomas Dickey.

On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 09:17:43PM +0100, Stefan Schwandter wrote:
> Tor Slettnes wrote:
> >     Charl> Dear Debian-Xers, At the moment, I need to set the X
> >     Charl> resource xterm*metaSendsEscape to true and to do xmodmap -e
> >     Charl> "keysym Alt_L = Meta_L Alt_L" to get Alt+key combinations
> >     Charl> to work in an xterm, e.g. on the command-line (e.g. alt-f
> >     Charl> and alt-b for skipping words forwards and backwards) or in
> >     Charl> programs like JED.
> > Use the resources 'XTerm*modifier: meta', or 'XTerm*modifier: alt', as
> > you see fit.
> 
> That does not work for me (using woody and X 4.1.0-9). This resource
> doesn't seem to exist either (or am I blind ?).

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