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Re: Sanest way to make emacs behave on a Solaris OS


From: Harry Putnam
Subject: Re: Sanest way to make emacs behave on a Solaris OS
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 08:52:02 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3 (usg-unix-v)

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> shift       Shift_L (0x32),  Shift_R (0x3e)
>> lock        Caps_Lock (0x42)
>> control     Control_L (0x25),  Control_R (0x6d)
>> mod1        Alt_L (0x40)
>> mod2        Num_Lock (0x4d)
>> mod3      
>> mod4        Meta_L (0x73),  Meta_R (0x74),  Super_L (0x7f),  Hyper_L (0x80)
>> mod5        Mode_switch (0x5d),  ISO_Level3_Shift (0x71),  ISO_Level3_Shift 
>> (0x7c)
>
> There you go: Alt on `mod1' and Meta on `mod4'.
> So, a possible solution:
>
>    xmodmap -e 'remove mod4 = Meta_L Meta_R'
>    xmodmap -e 'add mod1 = Meta_L Meta_R'
>
> so both your Meta and Alt keys will behave as one and the same modifier
> (probably called "Alt" in most programs and "Meta" in Emacs).
>

Is it normal for that change to only be good until next boot up?

I ask because after a reboot, it has gone away.




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