On Mon, 01 Feb 2016, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Tue, 2 Feb 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > >:-) "There are no dumb questions. Only dumb answers." > > Okay. Here's one -- I was going to post it in gnu.emacs.help, but you > changed my mind! Emacs running in X honors Alt as its Meta key. But if I > launch 'emacs -nw' to avoid running in X that understanding (Meta == Alt) > evaporates. Perhaps I need to set something specific in my .emacs for the > minibuffer?
You probably want: XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true or the equivalent in your shell. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com
