From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 7 17:52:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA20326 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 17:52:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA20293 for ; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 17:52:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA29459; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 12:22:04 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id MAA14808; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 12:21:51 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981208122151.J12688@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 12:21:51 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Brook Miles , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ALT key doesn't work in emacs References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Brook Miles on Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 02:02:24PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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