Re: XEmacs use 'Alt' as 'Meta'

2000-03-19 Thread Brian Lavender
I just use xkeycaps to redefine the keys. Check dselect for it. Am I following this thread correctly? brian On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 04:55:23PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've been rather fighting the inconsistancies myself. I might get to > fixing up console someday. > > Oh yeah, there

Re: XEmacs use 'Alt' as 'Meta'

2000-03-19 Thread ferret
I've been rather fighting the inconsistancies myself. I might get to fixing up console someday. Oh yeah, there's something called ICCCM which xemacs follows under X which among other things describes a method (IMO the Right Way) to consistantly read and interpret keypresses. Basically (going f

Re: XEmacs use 'Alt' as 'Meta'

2000-03-18 Thread Frank Barknecht
Brian May hat gesagt: // Brian May wrote: > Is it possible to use the windows key as meta in XEmacs for text mode > sessions? I don't like this inconsistency... Some combinations work, > others don't. Tested: > > text mode console: alt --> meta > gnome-terminal:alt --> meta > xterm: w

Re: XEmacs use 'Alt' as 'Meta'

2000-03-18 Thread Brian May
> "Sean" == Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sean> On 16-Mar-2000 Joseph A. Martin wrote: >> Hello, I feel like this should be a simple thing to do, but I >> haven't been able to figure it out so far. I want XEmacs to my >> Left Alt key as the Meta key. It works

RE: XEmacs use 'Alt' as 'Meta'

2000-03-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 16-Mar-2000 Joseph A. Martin wrote: > Hello, > I feel like this should be a simple thing to do, but I haven't > been able to figure it out so far. I want XEmacs to my Left Alt key as > the Meta key. It works like that when I am running XEmacs from the > console. However, if I run XEmacs f

Re: XEmacs use 'Alt' as 'Meta'

2000-03-16 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Joseph A. Martin wrote: > Hello, > I feel like this should be a simple thing to do, but I haven't > been able to figure it out so far. I want XEmacs to my Left Alt key as > the Meta key. It works like that when I am running XEmacs from the > console. However, if I run XE

XEmacs use 'Alt' as 'Meta'

2000-03-16 Thread Joseph A. Martin
Hello, I feel like this should be a simple thing to do, but I haven't been able to figure it out so far. I want XEmacs to my Left Alt key as the Meta key. It works like that when I am running XEmacs from the console. However, if I run XEmacs from XWindows ESC is my meta key and Left-Alt is