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Jeremy Bowen <jeremyb@opennw.com> writes:

> Other apps seem to recognise <Alt> as seperate from the M- (ESC) key. How 
> can I configure either Emacs or X to recognise this correctly ?

What happens when you do this?

(global-set-key (kbd "<escape> a") 'forward-char)
(global-set-key (kbd "M-a") 'backward-char)

Maybe it gives you different behavior for the two variants.
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