From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bijan Soleymani Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Help producing the Alt modifier Date: 03 May 2003 00:24:49 -0400 Organization: www.crasseux.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <5SBra.42419$mZ4.495512@news.xtra.co.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051935995 8259 80.91.224.249 (3 May 2003 04:26:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 04:26:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 03 06:26:33 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19BobY-00028z-00 for ; Sat, 03 May 2003 06:26:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19BoaQ-0007vM-01 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 May 2003 00:25:22 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!wesley.videotron.net!weber.videotron.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.202.124.181 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@videotron.ca Original-X-Trace: weber.videotron.net 1051935890 24.202.124.181 (Sat, 03 May 2003 00:24:50 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 00:24:50 EDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:112707 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:9202 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9202 Jeremy Bowen writes: > Within Emacs however if I do 'C-h k' and press Alt-x, Emacs tells me that it > is interpreting this as: M-x runs the command execute-extended-command..... > > How do I tell Emacs that when I press Alt, I really want the Alt- modifier > and not the Meta- modifier ? It seems to be getting "mod1" and interpreting > this as Meta instead of Alt!!! Or have I mis-understood this also. In emacs "alt" doesn't really do much of anything. This is what my (limited) experience with Sun keyboards has shown me (they have seperate alt and meta keys). Most PCs lack a meta key so emacs uses "alt" as "meta". Ctrl and Meta are the standard modifiers in emacs. Btw I don't know if this helps, but when I set my keyboard in XFree86 to be pc104 instead of pc101, I get "windows keys" as meta and alt as alt in emacs. Bijan