From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Will Parsons Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: where does Alt become Meta? Date: 20 Jul 2007 21:06:00 GMT Message-ID: Reply-To: ellenophilos@yahoo.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1184967644 4838 80.91.229.12 (20 Jul 2007 21:40:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:40:44 +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 Jul 20 23:40:42 2007 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 1IC0DD-0001u7-Q3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 23:40:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IC0DD-00037l-6Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:40:35 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 9 Original-X-Trace: individual.net jljDPPYAmZbqjPZYvYa8xAKR3kye4xhQ8RsRn237fIOxmfrF00 Cancel-Lock: sha1:02ODUNfrHwaS8vmquyRisokNF1A= User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (FreeBSD) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:150275 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:45857 Archived-At: 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