From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 29 21:19: 4 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B661937B401 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 21:19:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 13C5443F43 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 21:18:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1044335929.db5a91@mired.org) Received: (qmail 44269 invoked from network); 30 Jan 2003 05:18:49 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 30 Jan 2003 05:18:49 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15928.46520.970987.368167@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 23:18:48 -0600 To: "Thaddeus J. Quintin" Cc: Subject: Re: A question asked many times- In-Reply-To: <000001c2c81a$546e60e0$0200a8c0@tjqathlonpc> References: <000001c2c81a$546e60e0$0200a8c0@tjqathlonpc> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.68 (Shut Out) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <000001c2c81a$546e60e0$0200a8c0@tjqathlonpc>, Thaddeus J. Quintin typed: > I would like to map my "alt" keys to be "meta" keys. Is there any > reason why I shouldn't do that? Is there a better/different solution? > Using ESC just doesn't cut it... You're using Emacs, right? If so, have you tried using the alt keys as meta keys? Here, in Xemacs, they work as a meta key out of the box. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message