Re: Meta key definition in a linux console

["Colin S. Miller" <no-spam-thank-you@csmiller.demon.co.uk>]

Olivier Sirven wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> I run a Mac laptop with emacs 23 and everything is just fine, my meta
> key is defined to my command key and I'm happy with it. But when I
> ssh to a distant linux machine and run an emacs 23 session in console
> mode I don't have any other ways to access meta but by using ESC key
> which is far from being an ergonomical solution. 
> As this emacs version is compiled for linux, there is no such variable
> as "mac-command-modifier" and I don't know how to tell emacs (or the
> console) to use the command key as meta.
> 
> Any ideas would be just great!
> 
> Thanks
> 

Olivier,
if you log in using "ssh -X" (capital X, lowercase disables X-forwarding),
then ssh will wrap an X-window connection from
the remote machine back to local machine, and set up any xauth information.
Then you can use the remote emacs as an X application.


HTH,
Colin S. Miller
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