Re: how to customize Alt key for emacs on windows xp

[B. T. Raven]

"Badari Kakumani" <badarisj@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> folks,
>
> my emacs on windows xp thinks Alt key to be Meta key (escape key).
>
> is there a way to tell my emacs to distinguish between the two?
>
> i have already tried
>    (setq w32-pass-alt-to-system t)
> and that did not help.
>
> thanks for your help.
>
> -badari
>

But where did you find a keyboard with a Meta key? Esc works as a Meta key
but it is too far from the home keys to be useful for frequent use. Thanks
for the question though. I want to let Alt function as Meta since Meta is
more commonly used than Alt. I already have the right and left window keys
as Super and the App-Menu key as Hyper. I might as well make Esc into Alt.
Does anyone how this can be done and in general whether keybindings must
be undone (deallocated or whatever) before a new one is setup? Is the old
one just masked by the new one? Is the memory used to set up the old
binding recovered by garbage collection?

Thanks,

Ed, not a progammer