From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: wbp@nodomain.invalid (Will Parsons) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: where does Alt become Meta? Date: 23 Jul 2007 13:52:15 GMT Organization: Westinghouse Electric Company Message-ID: References: Reply-To: william.b.parsons@us.westinghouse.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185201669 19876 80.91.229.12 (23 Jul 2007 14:41:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:41:09 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 23 16:41:07 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 1ICz5u-0006Ka-Tz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:41:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ICz5u-0003bB-1R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:41:06 -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: 24 Original-X-Trace: individual.net vBEeQZjS4WSSKcexwpdYoQxbu+Zm25mahsJjwCDxw8XMz0veRQ Cancel-Lock: sha1:rCDCw/c0XmUEMR64LsGmnb5WNHI= User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.1 (Win32) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:150305 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:45886 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Will Parsons >> 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