Re: Strange characters produced by M-x in emacs -nw

[Harry Putnam]

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

>> | mod1        Alt_L (0x40),  Alt_R (0x6c),  Meta_L (0xcd)
>
> This might be a source of problems: try to remap your Meta_L key to
> Alt_L as follows:
>
>   xmodmap -e 'keysym Meta_L = Alt_L'
>

Thanks for jumping in again Stefan, you helped with very similar
problem on a solaris machine a while back.

Should I see results immediately or does this require a restart of X?