Re: Alt as Meta Key in Emacs21 and XFree 4.1.0.1

2002-04-09 Thread Pete Harlan
This will swap your left windows and alt keys, so you can use Alt for Meta and (in wmaker and probably other window managers) the windows key to switch windows. 1. Use xkeycaps to rearrange the keyboard how you'd like, and save the modifications in a file such as ~/.xmodmap. Mine looks like th

Re: Alt as Meta Key in Emacs21 and XFree 4.1.0.1

2002-04-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 08-Apr-2002 Holger Rauch wrote: > Hi! > > I noticed that in Debian Woody the Alt key does not work as Meta key when > using Emacs 21 under X (XFree 4.1.0.1). What do I have to put in my .emacs > file to get it to work? (I was looking at the FAQ using Help->Emacs FAQ, > but found nothing there.

Re: Alt as Meta

2002-04-03 Thread pcolbeck
Thanks That was driving me mad. Strangely now I know that the Windows key is meta I might leave it as it is, means that key now has a use :) Pat -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Alt as Meta

2002-04-03 Thread Jonathan David Wheelhouse
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 10:30:37AM +0100, Pat Colbeck wrote: > Hi > > I am running a Woody system and cannot get Alt to work as Meta in > Xemacs. I have just installed Xemacs and havent added any config for it I had the same problem a year or so ago and tried quite a few things but it was the foll