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Bob Proulx wrote:

>> Don't know exactly. It depends on the
>> terminal you're using. For example, this is
>> seen in XTerm. If you use XTerm, you can
>> solve that by toggling the option "Meta
>> sends escape" which you can reach by
>> C-down-Mouse-1 (Ctrl + left button).
>
> That is what I do. I run emacs in Xterm with
> the following Xresources set.
>
>   XTerm*metaSendsEscape:true

Yup. In ~/.Xresources, and then

    xrdb ~/.Xresources

in ~/.xinitrc

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