From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Ryan Krauss" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: no meta key in Windows Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:11:17 -0500 Message-ID: References: <67105$450ab1d5$49edec4$31838@DIALUPUSA.NET> 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 1158347543 22017 80.91.229.2 (15 Sep 2006 19:12:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 19:12:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 15 21:12:22 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 1GOJ6g-0007oY-Gm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 21:12:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GOJ6f-00088N-TQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:12:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GOJ5r-0007Pj-UI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:11:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GOJ5r-0007Om-1b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:11:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GOJ5q-0007OZ-Vl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:11:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.162.204] (helo=nz-out-0102.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GOJ85-00072a-7N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:13:37 -0400 Original-Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id z31so1530816nzd for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:11:18 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=gYc+6WgD77/868v0WLIT8ozSqFUE6JwiVqdszPr1RfiBnYaI3wVZjfBzGrbfu5gBoO7f+1CMwSFPC1ZDQC9tr38qvBRn8kX2I5OuSRQageF+RQ9SLuzo+qDCKrH48DsObZXy+dlw2NkqMLzf4713jKob0zHj9qx+x/eSeU7yhyI= Original-Received: by 10.65.59.20 with SMTP id m20mr12694742qbk; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:11:18 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.64.24.13 with HTTP; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:11:17 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: "B. T. Raven" In-Reply-To: <67105$450ab1d5$49edec4$31838@DIALUPUSA.NET> Content-Disposition: inline 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:37394 Archived-At: I typed w32-alt-is-meta into a scratch buffer and hit C-j and got t So, I think I have a meta key. I alt-backspace does what alt-delete does on my keyboard at home (kill previous word). How I make alt-del do what alt-backspace does? Thanks, Ryan On 9/15/06, B. T. Raven wrote: > > "Ryan Krauss" wrote in message > news:mailman.6975.1158328063.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org... > > I am a Linux using running windows in my office somewhat against my > will. > > > > I am having some trouble getting windows emacs to behave like the > > emacs setup I have in Ubuntu. > > > > But my biggest problem right now is that I don't seem to have a meta > > key. I installed emacs from: > > > > emacs-21.3-fullbin-i386.tar.gz > > > > and then ran addpm.exe. > > > > Is there something more I need to do? alt-delete just beeps at me and > > doesn't kill the previous word. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Ryan > > Ryan > > > > > > See if w32-alt-is-meta is nil. It should be t but I don't remember when > this was set. It's not in my .emacs. > > Ed > > _______________________________________________ > help-gnu-emacs mailing list > help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs >