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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
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