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* Meta key for 'emacs -nw'
@ 2016-02-02  4:06 Bob Bernstein
  2016-02-02  8:57 ` Yuri Khan
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From: Bob Bernstein @ 2016-02-02  4:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Emacs, unless specifically told not to do it -- with the 
'-nw' option, will ordinarily launch here (in an xterm) in X 
window fashion, and the Meta key is then 'Alt'.

Launched in the same xterm, with '-nw,' emacs uses Esc for 
its Meta key, which I find um disenchanting, for lack of a 
better term.

Do I need to place some information in my .emacs, perhaps 
related to the minibuffer, instructing emacs to stay with Alt 
for its Meta key? 

Or is this a matter of setting my xterm correctly?

(A thousand pardons if this is a  F A Q.)


-- 
Bob Bernstein


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