[ltp] Meta and Alt and emacs

[David Jones]

Hello:

     I hope I am not stating the obvious here but for (standard) PC style
keyboards a simple meta sequence, M-a in emacs terms, is generated by the
Alt and "a" keys depressed together.  For keyboards that do not have
the Alt key, the ESC key followed by the target key is used.  In other
words, you already have what you want, unless I am missing something.

     I am running GNU Emacs 20.2.1 (i586-slackware-linux-gnu, X
toolkit).

Regards,
David Jones

   From: Arcady Genkin <antipode@thpoon.com>
   Date: 16 Jun 2000 16:16:36 -0400

   My notebook (TP 240) has no Windows key to delegate as "Meta".

   I'm looking for a way to make emacs recognize Alt as Meta (I don't
   want to redefine Alt globally, because my window manager (WindowMaker)
   uses it for some shortcuts.

   Anyone aware of a way to tell emacs (xemacs in my case) Alt=Meta?
   Something that would go in .emacs, perhaps?

   Thanks!
   -- 
   Arcady Genkin
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