RE: ALT key

[Jason Meyering]

This probably isn't the solution you're looking for, 
but I always use "C-[" to invoke meta.  That way no 
matter what system/keyboard I'm on, meta is always 
consistent.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Todd Wells [mailto:toddw@wrq.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 8:39 AM
> To: 'help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org'
> Subject: RE: ALT key
> 
> 
> I have the same problem with an OpenBSD machine that is not 
> running X --
> suggestions are appreciated...
> 
> -Todd
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org
> [mailto:help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org]On Behalf Of Sergei Astanin
> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 7:15 AM
> To: rcanellas@eversystems.com.br
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: ALT key
> 
> 
> On Thu,  3 May 2001 09:38:46 -0300
> "Rodrigo Alexandre Ribeiro Canellas" 
> <rcanellas@eversystems.com.br> wrote:
> 
> RARC> HI!! 
> RARC>  
> RARC> I have a ALT key in my keyboard, but emacs is using ESC 
> key as Meta. 
> RARC> How can I force emacs to use ALT as the Meta? 
> RARC>  
> RARC> TIA! 
> RARC> 
> RARC> 
> RARC> --
> RARC> Rodrigo Canellas
> RARC> www.EverSystems.com.br
> 
> Hello, Rodrigo!
> 
> On some Linux distributions selecting the PC103, PC104 and 
> PC105 keyboards
> means that you will use so called "Windows Flag" as a META 
> modifier. If you
> want to use PC101 keyboard (and ALT), try to change your 
> XF86Config (usually
> XkbModel some where before XkbLayout - but I am not a guru in Xkb
> configuration :)
> 
> I used a "Flag" for quite a long time :)
> 
> Sergei
> 
> 
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