From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Badari Kakumani" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: how to customize Alt key for emacs on windows xp Date: 30 Jan 2006 07:33:36 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1138635216.941306.81310@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138642191 2900 80.91.229.2 (30 Jan 2006 17:29:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:29:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 30 18:29:46 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F3cpF-0001ov-Pv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:28:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F3csD-0006tk-5K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:31:29 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.102.254.33 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1138635222 17148 127.0.0.1 (30 Jan 2006 15:33:42 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:33:42 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=64.102.254.33; posting-account=0N54pQ0AAACKpZzrYixCds5IKoApfAwr Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:137296 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:32918 Archived-At: folks, my emacs on windows xp thinks Alt key to be Meta key (escape key). is there a way to tell my emacs to distinguish between the two? i have already tried (setq w32-pass-alt-to-system t) and that did not help. thanks for your help. -badari