From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to customize Alt key for emacs on windows xp Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:35:57 +0100 Message-ID: <43DE94CD.9060201@student.lu.se> References: <1138635216.941306.81310@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138660743 16533 80.91.229.2 (30 Jan 2006 22:39:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 22:39:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 30 23:39:00 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F3hfi-0001gk-Da for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:38:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F3hig-00059N-Tf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:41:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F3hhV-0004Tw-FG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:40:45 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F3hgk-0003Tv-Ew for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:39:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F3hfv-0002Af-KL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:39:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.159] (helo=pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1F3heI-0000nl-9v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:37:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.218.244) by pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.069.1) id 43DE37600002138B; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:35:58 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) Original-To: Peter Lee In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:32923 Archived-At: Peter Lee wrote: >>>>> Badari Kakumani writes: >>>>> > > > my emacs on windows xp thinks Alt key to be Meta key (escape key). > > is there a way to tell my emacs to distinguish between the two? > > ,----[ C-h v w32-alt-is-meta RET ] > | w32-alt-is-meta is a variable defined in `C source code'. > | Its value is t > | > | Documentation: > | Non-nil if the alt key is to be considered the same as the meta key. > | When nil, Emacs will translate the alt key to the Alt modifier, and not Meta. > | > | [back] > `---- > You may also be interested in the patched version of Emacs that you can get with the EmacsW32+Emacs installer. With this patched version of Emacs you can use the windows keys as Emacs META. See http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32Util.html#alt-war