Re: wish: right alt/meta to switch keyboard layout while pressed

[Paul Pogonyshev]

Richard M. Stallman wrote:
>     As far as I can tell, Emacs currently just ignores the right Alt.
> 
> Why does Emacs ignore the right Alt key?  It seems to me that
> (at least normally) it should be equivalent to the left Alt key.

Probably because X distinguishes between the two Alts (I don't know
the details) and Emacs only considers the left Alt as Meta key.  It
may also depend on how X is configured.

> I would not mind if some other feature were optionally added to it,
> but we should not think about that now.

OK.

Paul