Re: Alt Putty

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>]

alt needs not to be captured by emacs so it can get to putty then have 
putty work.

On Fri, 28 Aug 2015, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 09:41:37
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Alt Putty
> 
>> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 06:07:15 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com>
>>
>> On Friday, August 28, 2015 at 6:17:52 PM UTC+5:30, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>>> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 04:10:50 -0700 (PDT)
>>>> From: Rusi
>>>>
>>>> How to make Alt-key work with PuTTY?
>>>
>>> What do you mean by "work"?  Should it produce A-key or M-key in
>>> Emacs?
>>
>> Sorry for not being clear... I guess this is OT
>> Best I can see Alt generates nothing
>> Naturally I would like Alt-x to be emacs' M-x as it does in
>> windows and gnu/linux desktops.
>
> I think this happens automatically with PuTTY.  It does for me.
>
> Are you sure it's not something in your TERM value and the
> corresponding terminfo entry on the target machine?  What happens if
> you type "ESC x", does Emacs on the remote see "M-x"?  If it does,
> audit the PuTTY settings on the PuTTY's "Keyboard" and "Features"
> panes (under "Terminal").  Maybe also "Behaviour" under "Window".
>
>

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