From: wbp@nodomain.invalid (Will Parsons)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: where does Alt become Meta?
Date: 23 Jul 2007 13:52:15 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnfa9ckf.3mg.wbp@L1422169.w-intra.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.3730.1185011735.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Will Parsons <oudeis@nodomain.invalid>
>> Date: 20 Jul 2007 21:06:00 GMT
>>
>> 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.
>
> I think you might be confusing two different issues: Emacs does
> recognize an Alt prefix, and it is different from the Meta prefix.
> A-q is always unbound in Emacs by default.
>
>> Where does Emacs map Alt combinations to Meta combinations?
>
> Nowhere. This is done outside Emacs's keymaps. In your case, you
> should set up TightVNC to send the Meta modifier when you press the
> Alt key.
Thanks. I found the right way to configure TightVNC to set Alt to Meta.
I thought that Emacs must handle Alt somehow, since I can use Alt combos
on the console too, but I guess that the console driver handles it somehow?
- Will
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-23 13:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-20 21:06 where does Alt become Meta? Will Parsons
2007-07-21 8:46 ` 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 [this message]
2007-07-23 19:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
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