Re: no meta key in Windows

[B. T. Raven]

"Ryan Krauss" <ryanlists@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.6975.1158328063.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org...
> I am a Linux using running windows in my office somewhat against my
will.
>
> I am having some trouble getting windows emacs to behave like the
> emacs setup I have in Ubuntu.
>
> But my biggest problem right now is that I don't seem to have a meta
> key.  I installed emacs from:
>
> emacs-21.3-fullbin-i386.tar.gz
>
> and then ran addpm.exe.
>
> Is there something more I need to do?  alt-delete just beeps at me and
> doesn't kill the previous word.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ryan
> Ryan
>
>

See if w32-alt-is-meta is nil. It should be t but I don't remember when
this was set. It's not in my .emacs.

Ed