From: Bob Bernstein <rosebud@sdf.lonestar.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Meta key for 'emacs -nw'
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 04:06:46 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <n8pa0m$2fa$1@odin.sdf-eu.org> (raw)
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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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-02 4:06 Bob Bernstein [this message]
2016-02-02 8:57 ` Meta key for 'emacs -nw' Yuri Khan
2016-02-02 9:14 ` Magnus Therning
2016-02-02 9:15 ` Magnus Therning
[not found] ` <mailman.3406.1454403498.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-02-02 14:43 ` HASM
[not found] ` <mailman.3409.1454404529.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-02-02 17:53 ` Bob Bernstein
2016-02-02 23:15 ` Emanuel Berg
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