Re: A proposal for the keybindings issue
Re: A proposal for the keybindings issue
- Subject: Re: A proposal for the keybindings issue
- From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 21:20:31 +0100 (CET)
+ "Peter Eddy" <email@hidden>:
> On Nov 24, 2007 12:03 PM, Harald Hanche-Olsen <email@hidden> wrote:
> > + "Nathaniel Gray" <email@hidden>:
> >
> > > Doesn't emacs have the option to use Alt for Meta?
> >
> > Not as far as I am able to find out.
> >
>
> Which emacs?
Sorry, I should have specified that: GNU emacs. And since this is
x11-users, I am not talking about carbon emacs og aquamacs, nor am I
talking about emacs running inside a terminal. I am indeed talking
about GNU emacs running as an X11 application. (BTW I am running
carbon emacs locally on my Mac. I also regularly run emacsen on
remote machines with my Mac as the display.)
> On Linux emacs usually does use alt for meta.
By that, do you mean (a) emacs uses the modifier key that is either
Alt_L or Alt_R according to X11 (and as reported by xev) as meta, or
(b) that when you press the key marked Alt on the keyboard, emacs sees
it as meta?
If (b), all that means is that X11 really sees the key marked Alt as
meta. This is configured using xmodmap. If (a), I'll believe it when
I see it (these strong words notwithstanding, I know I could be wrong).
> I have in my Mac's ~/.Xmodmap:
> ! Set option to Meta
> keycode 63 = Meta_L
Funny, keycode 63 is the key called command on my powerbook. In any
case, that is X11 configuration you're talking about, not emacs
configuration.
> Which is (if I remember) what got emacs on remote machines working
> with the Mac's Alt key.
I would have to use keycode 66 for that, as this is what the Alt key
produces on mine.
- Harald
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