From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Help producing the Alt modifier Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 14:25:19 +0200 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84brylwn68.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <84he8gvz6e.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <84wuha6g84.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051878670 21806 80.91.224.249 (2 May 2003 12:31:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 12:31:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 02 14:31:08 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 19BZge-0005eW-00 for ; Fri, 02 May 2003 14:30:48 +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 19BZgx-0003in-07 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 May 2003 08:31:07 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!proxad.net!proxad.net!skynet.be!skynet.be!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.DE!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de (134.91.35.216) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1051878475 14175947 134.91.35.216 (16 [73968]) Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1O3vy4bHSHa4DgJh1oHvAzMJ1+Y= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:112655 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:9151 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9151 Jeremy Bowen writes: > Yes. However it is somewhat irrelevant as I don't have a problem with ESC or > Meta. I have a problem with Alt > > How do I make the ALT keys generate the modifier ????? My understanding of your problem was that you wanted different behaviors from ESC x than from Alt-x. I gave you different behaviors. Does it really matter what they are called in Emacs? Maybe there is a reason why it matters, but you didn't explain about it, so I don't know. Here's an explanation how you can get the Alt modifier. Let's say your output from "xmodmap -pm" contains "mod1 Alt_L, Alt_R". Let's further say that there is an empty modifier (let the empty modifier be mod3). Let's lastly say that there is a key on your keyboard which you don't need (print screen, scroll lock, or pause come to mind), and that it has the keycode 4711. Then write the following into the file ~/.xmodmap: keycode 4711 = Meta_L add mod3 = Meta_L Now say "xmodmap ~/.xmodmap". Then start Emacs. -- file-error; Data: (Opening input file no such file or directory ~/.signature)