From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Meta key definition in a linux console Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:48:50 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1250861095 24872 80.91.229.12 (21 Aug 2009 13:24:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:24:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 21 15:24:48 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MeU6q-0005qU-1g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:24:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46495 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MeU6p-0002uw-D9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:24:47 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!u38g2000pro.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.102.12.87 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1250783330 7667 127.0.0.1 (20 Aug 2009 15:48:50 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:48:50 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: u38g2000pro.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.102.12.87; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.39 Safari/530.5, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:172152 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:10:08 -0400 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:67345 Archived-At: On Aug 20, 2:42 am, Olivier Sirven wrote: > Hello there, > > I run a Mac laptop with emacs 23 and everything is just fine, my meta > key is defined to my command key and I'm happy with it. But when I > ssh to a distant linux machine and run an emacs 23 session in console > mode I don't have any other ways to access meta but by using ESC key > which is far from being an ergonomical solution. > As this emacs version is compiled for linux, there is no such variable > as "mac-command-modifier" and I don't know how to tell emacs (or the > console) to use the command key as meta. > > Any ideas would be just great! i read the thread but seems your question is not very clear. whether meta key works or what your keyboard hardware key invokes it is a local issue, nothing to do with remote emacs... If you are on Mac OS X, you are using Terminal right? In Terminal preference, you can find a checkbox that lets you have Option key as meta. That simply just works, if i understand you correctly. Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84