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- From: cap+@cmu.edu (Chris Paris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: How to get an emacs META key?
- Message-ID: <8ePzwXX0_ek1Q6BE48@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 05:01:24 GMT
- Article-I.D.: andrew.8ePzwXX0_ek1Q6BE48
- References: <1992Jul22.102713.863@glocke.hotb.sub.org>
- Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
- Lines: 28
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- In article <1992Jul22.102713.863@glocke.hotb.sub.org>
- frank@glocke.hotb.sub.org (Frank Thomas) writes:
- > In article <35747@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> mclegg@cs.ucsd.edu (Matthew Clegg)
- > writes:
- > > I'm curious if there is a (relatively easy) way to cause emacs to
- > > identify the "Alternate" key on the keyboard with its concept of the
- > > "META" key. For example, I would like to be able to press the
- > > keystroke combination "Alternate-<" to go to the beginning of the file
- > > instead of the usual "ESC-<". Any advice or pointers along these
- > > lines would be greatly appreciated.
- > >
- > > --
- > Get Emacs2.0 which is a frontend for your emacs. I think i found it on
- > cs.orst.edu or {nova,sonata}.cc.purdue.edu. Emacs2.0 uses ALT as META,
- > you can use the mouse to set the cusor to any point, and you can use
- > CMD-{X,C,V,Z} to do what you expcet from it.
- > My problem is, that this is not of much use in Germany where we have to
- > type eg 'ALT-8' to get '['.
-
- Getting Emacs is the best way to go, but you can also get the meta key to
- work in your shell windows by placing the following line into your .emacs
- file.
-
- (setq-default meta-flag t)
-
- --
- Chris Paris
- cap+@cmu.edu (NeXT mail)
-