From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Luis O. Silva" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Help producing the Alt modifier Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 13:16:57 +0400 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <16050.14217.387877.502536@localhost.localdomain> References: <84he8gvz6e.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <84wuha6g84.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> Reply-To: "Luis O. Silva" NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051867015 10925 80.91.224.249 (2 May 2003 09:16:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 09:16:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 02 11:16:53 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19BWez-0002py-00 for ; Fri, 02 May 2003 11:16:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19BWf4-0007eP-02 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 May 2003 05:16:58 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19BWem-0007a1-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 May 2003 05:16:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19BWek-0007Z0-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 May 2003 05:16:39 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.wplus.net ([195.131.52.143] helo=relay1.wplus.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19BWdX-0006CS-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 May 2003 05:15:24 -0400 X-Real-To: Original-Received: from emaile.wplus.net (emaile.wplus.net [195.131.52.155]) by relay1.wplus.net (8.9.1/8.9.1/wplus.2) with ESMTP id NAA62345 for ; Fri, 2 May 2003 13:15:15 +0400 (MSD) Original-Received: by emaile.wplus.net with scanned-ok (WebPlus antispam mailer ) id 19BWdQ-000Lqb-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 May 2003 13:15:16 +0400 Original-Received: from [195.131.96.191] (helo=localhost.localdomain) by emaile.wplus.net with esmtp (WebPlus antispam mailer ) id 19BWdO-000Lq7-00; Fri, 02 May 2003 13:15:15 +0400 Original-To: Jeremy Bowen Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 6.97 under Emacs 21.1.1 X-Virus-Scanned: by AVP (http://www.avp.ru/) X-IP: 195.131.96.191 X-From: silva@paloma.spbu.ru X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:9149 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9149 Hi Jeremy, On Fri, 02 May 2003 12:33:29 +1200, Jeremy Bowen writes: JB> Kai Gro=DFjohann wrote: >> Jeremy Bowen writes: >> >>> Kai Gro=DFjohann wrote: >>>> What happens when you do this? >>>> >>>> (global-set-key (kbd " a") 'forward-char) >>>> (global-set-key (kbd "M-a") 'backward-char) >>> It seems that ESC actually gives me ESC which is then >>> interpreted as Meta as it should be according to the >>> docs. >> Did you actually try it? JB> Yes. However it is somewhat irrelevant as I don't have JB> a problem with ESC or Meta. I have a problem with Alt JB> How do I make the ALT keys generate the modifier JB> ????? I'm not an expert (I'm almost a complete ignorant in this), but since you haven't obtained an answer from the experts I'll try to help you. AFAIK you won't be able to generate the Alt modifier in Emacs. You always will obtain the Meta modifier. The Alt modifier didn't exist in the old terminal and it is *not* needed in Emacs. Why do you want this modifier? If you need an alternative modifier, why don't you define Super or Hyper? Best regards, luis --=20 Luis Octavio Silva P. St. Petersburg State University. 66/3 Botanicheskaya St., Apt.119/2 Stary Peterhof St. Petersburg, Russia. +---------------------------------+ | WE ARE NOT DOING ENOUGH! | | We haven't been able to prevent | | criminal governments from | | killing people for profit | +---------------------------------+