From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marco Parrone Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Help producing the Alt modifier Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 11:41:42 GMT Organization: none Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87isssb6kr.fsf@marc0host.dyndns.org> References: <5SBra.42419$mZ4.495512@news.xtra.co.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051962405 16395 80.91.224.249 (3 May 2003 11:46:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 11:46:45 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 03 13:46:42 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 19BvTW-0004G1-00 for ; Sat, 03 May 2003 13:46:42 +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 19BvSh-0007mj-08 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 May 2003 07:45:51 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp.infostrada.it!news-out.tin.it!news-in.tin.it!news2.tin.it.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 40 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.171.30.91 Original-X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@tin.it Original-X-Trace: news2.tin.it 1051962102 212.171.30.91 (Sat, 03 May 2003 13:41:42 MET DST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 13:41:42 MET DST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:112717 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:9212 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9212 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bijan Soleymani writes: > In emacs "alt" doesn't really do much of anything. This is what my > (limited) experience with Sun keyboards has shown me (they have > seperate alt and meta keys). Most PCs lack a meta key so emacs uses > "alt" as "meta". That's the point, you can add keybindings with prefix `A-', without the risk to conflict with the standard keybindings. But you can use `C-c ...', or `H-' or `S-' too. > Ctrl and Meta are the standard modifiers in emacs. > > Btw I don't know if this helps, but when I set my keyboard in XFree86 > to be pc104 instead of pc101, I get "windows keys" as meta and alt as > alt in emacs. It is also useful to exchange them using xmodmap, I've done this after reading about xmodmap here and it's just more confortable, so you can let the fingers type "automatically" without having the troble to hit A- instead of M- when you enter in X and vice versa when you come back to the tty. - -- Marco Parrone - marc0@autistici.org www.autistici.org/marc0 2143 9E77 D5E6 115A 48AD A170 D0EE F736 (4E88 99C2) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 iD8DBQE+s6qw0O73Nk6ImcIRAkoLAKDMTNErc6BYfpPMSm4ghQRizZm/vQCgjq3p 7giOGuRuz7KyaA37F2Y1xXY= =dBrT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----