Re: emacs, X, and Alt key--SOLVED!

1998-01-23 Thread Mark Phillips
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I, like Thomas Vaughan, have been having problems getting emacs to > > recognise the Alt key under X. (The system is a Toshiba laptop.) > > The `problem' is that the Alt keys aren't acting as the

Re: emacs, X, and Alt key

1998-01-21 Thread Kirk Hilliard
Hi Mark! > I, like Thomas Vaughan, have been having problems getting emacs to > recognise the Alt key under X. (The system is a Toshiba laptop.) I'm running a Toshiba Tecra 730CDT, and the Alt key in emacs under X works fine in combination with other keys without any special setup. What model is

Re: emacs, X, and Alt key

1998-01-21 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Well it may not quite follow the discussion... I'm using XEmacs 20 and X-3.2.2 (hamm). I have the keyboard with "Windows" button neighbouring to ALT button. It works like ESC in XEmacs. May be it's good enough solution. The good thing is that I just followed whatever was the default in t

Re: emacs, X, and Alt key

1998-01-21 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I, like Thomas Vaughan, have been having problems getting emacs to > recognise the Alt key under X. (The system is a Toshiba laptop.) > > Daniel Martin wrote: > > > What is the result of the following commands: > > xmodmap > > xmodmap -pke | grep -E '

Re: emacs, X, and Alt key

1998-01-21 Thread Mark Phillips
I, like Thomas Vaughan, have been having problems getting emacs to recognise the Alt key under X. (The system is a Toshiba laptop.) Daniel Martin wrote: > What is the result of the following commands: > xmodmap > xmodmap -pke | grep -E '64|11[356]' Here are the results: $ xmodmap xmodmap: up

Re: emacs, X, and Alt key

1998-01-16 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
"Thomas E. Vaughan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My problem is that *neither* `Alt' key is being interpreted as `Meta' > by emacs. AfterStep's `Alt-Tab' combination works well enough to switch > between windows. > I have commented out two lines in my XF86config like that: # To set the LeftAl

Re: emacs, X, and Alt key

1998-01-12 Thread Peter S Galbraith
> My problem is that *neither* `Alt' key is being interpreted as `Meta' > by emacs. AfterStep's `Alt-Tab' combination works well enough to switch > between windows. Run `xev' and press the Alt keys to find what keycode they generate: For example, I get: keycode 113 (keysym 0xffea, Alt_R)

Re: emacs, X, and Alt key

1998-01-12 Thread Mark Phillips
> I used dselect's FTP mode to install emacs-19.34, X, and AfterStep. > My problem is that *neither* `Alt' key is being interpreted as `Meta' > by emacs. AfterStep's `Alt-Tab' combination works well enough to switch > between windows. > > I much prefer `Alt-x' to `Esc-x' as a means of entering a

Re: emacs, X, and Alt key

1998-01-12 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
"Thomas E. Vaughan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just installed Debian 1.3.1 on my Pentium-133 machine. > > I used dselect's FTP mode to install emacs-19.34, X, and AfterStep. > My problem is that *neither* `Alt' key is being interpreted as `Meta' > by emacs. AfterStep's `Alt-Tab' combination