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- From: mickeyf@vnet.ibm.com (Mickey Ferguson)
- Message-ID: <19920812.102753.907@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 10:24:41 PDT
- Newsgroups: comp.emacs
- Subject: Re: Using meta key on Sun Sparc
- Organization: Rolm
- Disclaimer: This note represents my views, not those of Rolm or IBM
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- References: <19920811.161755.494@almaden.ibm.com>
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- In <19920811.161755.494@almaden.ibm.com> I wrote:
- >I've compiled emacs 18.57 to run on our Sun SparcIPX, and everything seems
- >to work, with only one exception. There is no recognition of any of the
- >special Alt and 'diamond' keys down at the bottom. I was expecting to be
- >able to use 'diamond' and any key to produce the Meta-<key> sequence, just
- >like Esc-<key> would produce, but it doesn't seem to do anything. Any
- >ideas what I can do to get this to work? By the way, we are running Open
- >Look, but I'm just running emacs as an executable under cmdtool, not with
- >any of the fancy emacstool stuff. Thanks for any help.
-
- Here are some of the responses I have received:
-
- From: mta@cs.tut.fi (J{rvinen Markku), Terry_Glanfield.Southern@rxuk.xerox.com,
- stortek!Aaron_Dailey@csn.org (Aaron Dailey):
-
- > The meta key won't work in a shelltool or a cmdtool. It is a Sun bug,
- > not an emacs bug. You'd do better to either run in an xterm or build
- > the X windows version (#define HAVE_X_WINDOWS or something like that).
-
- It seems the ultimate solution is to run in xterm instead of cmdtool. I tried
- it, and it doesn't look very good. I'm hoping we can find something that runs
- under cmdtool. Is there a fix for this supposed Sun bug?
-
- From: kenb@dadd.ti.com (Ken Butler):
-
- > This function makes the arrow keys on the Sun keypad work. Put it in your
- > ~/.emacs. My problems with the meta key were associated with the termcap
- > entry I was using (xterm, sun-cmd, etc), and whether or not it thinks the
- > keyboard has a meta key.
- >
- > (defvar sun-esc-bracket t)
-
- This did nothing for me. The termcap entry says sun-cmd, and I can't change
- to x-windows. SunView is what everyone here is using, and many of our tools
- are designed specifically for it.
-
- From: Scott Brim <swb@nr-tech.cit.cornell.edu>
-
- > Good old Openwin. Drop this in your .xinitrc (and do it now for
- > testing):
- >
- > xmodmap -e 'add mod1 = Meta_L Meta_R'
-
- I saw no difference after doing this.
-
- Well, thanks to everyone so far for their responses, but it looks like I'll
- have to live without it. It's not a major problem, but a minor annoyance.
-
- Mickey Ferguson -- Rolm -- FergusoM at scrvm2 -- mickeyf@vnet.ibm.com
-