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From: Will Parsons <oudeis@nodomain.invalid>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: where does Alt become Meta?
Date: 20 Jul 2007 21:06:00 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnfa28to.os.oudeis@isis.thalatta.eme> (raw)

I use Emacs on a variety of systems and circumstances, and on just about
all of them I'm used to using the Alt key as Meta, so I was surprised 
recently to find that in an Emacs session running on FreeBSD, but accessed
on a Windows system via TightVNC, A-q was unbound.  Esc-q was bound as
expected to fill-paragraph, but since I find the Alt combinations a lot
more convenient, I would like to fix that, but have no idea where to look.
Where does Emacs map Alt combinations to Meta combinations?

- Will

             reply	other threads:[~2007-07-20 21:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-20 21:06 Will Parsons [this message]
2007-07-21  8:46 ` where does Alt become Meta? Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.3730.1185011735.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-07-22  0:16   ` Johan Bockgård
2007-07-22  3:12     ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-07-23 13:52   ` Will Parsons
2007-07-23 19:36     ` Eli Zaretskii

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