Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 12:21:51 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brook Miles <forger@bcgrizzly.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ALT key doesn't work in emacs Message-ID: <19981208122151.J12688@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9812071342220.15274-100000@kodiak.bcgrizzly.com>; from Brook Miles on Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 02:02:24PM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9812071342220.15274-100000@kodiak.bcgrizzly.com>
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On Monday, 7 December 1998 at 14:02:24 -0800, Brook Miles wrote: > > I just installed emacs to try it out. > When I read the tutorial it says to use the alt key or ESC for certain > things. ESC works but it's a pain, and the Alt key doesn't seem to have > any effect. > > Is there something I'm missing to get the Alt key to work? Yes. Set a keymap with Alt mapped to Meta. If you had told me something about your system, I could have given you more details, but us.emacs.kbd should be a good start. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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