[ltp] Meta and Alt and emacs

[Andrew Scott Beals]

The real problem is in your keymap, Arcady.  You're going to have to remap
Alt_L as Meta [or Meta_L?].  This is dependant on your X server.

David Jones wrote:

> 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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