Unhandy Metakey

Unhandy Metakey

[JS]

I think its pretty unhandy that the Meta key is "escape" is it not possible
to configure it more appropiate? 

Where have you configured to the Meta Key to be?

JS

Re: Unhandy Metakey

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 30.03.2005 um 12:14 schrieb JS:

> Where have you configured to the Meta Key to be?

An X server offers as a modifier (like Shift or Control) the Meta key. 
As with the two others you simply keep that one pressed and press on x 
or any other key. xmodmap -pm would reveal the modifiers. If you're on 
Windows maybe Emacs info has some MS Windows specific notes on the 
Windows key or such.

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Greetings

   Pete

$ sumascii BILL GATES
   B   I   L   L   G   A   T   E   S
  66+ 73+ 76+ 76+ 71+ 65+ 84+ 69+ 83 = 663

  and add 3 because he's Bill Gates the third.



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   Pete

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Re: Unhandy Metakey

[Steinar Børmer]

JS wrote:

| I think its pretty unhandy that the Meta key is "escape" is it not
| possible to configure it more appropiate?
| 
| Where have you configured to the Meta Key to be?

The Meta key is usually mapped to <Alt> on a Linux or BSD system on a
normal PC keyboard.

-- 
SB

Re: Unhandy Metakey

[Jim Ottaway]

>>>>> JS  <d44sf@44ada.com> writes:

> I think its pretty unhandy that the Meta key is "escape" is it not possible
> to configure it more appropiate? 

> Where have you configured to the Meta Key to be?

I find C-[ [that's control open-square-bracket] very handy as a
touch-typing friendly alternative to ESC: I think it is the same as
ESC in most terminals: requires no configuration.

-- 
Jim Ottaway