From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Sanest way to make emacs behave on a Solaris OS Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 09:59:53 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87vc3kva86.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> References: <87d2pzj4m2.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <87ob9izk9k.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <87fvusw968.fsf@newsguy.com> <20130803070334.GA2266@dismay.proulx.com> <87mwow3m16.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375689620 18593 80.91.229.3 (5 Aug 2013 08:00:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 08:00:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 05 10:00:23 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V6FiJ-0005fd-3H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Aug 2013 10:00:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55483 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V6FiI-00066U-N2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Aug 2013 04:00:22 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: SWN/nubmpQxYKwY7hPy4YA.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:fb0BDiIxOStISlAk7a1RUh6eeEs= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:200445 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92712 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > So, take a look at the output of "xmodmap". It probably > includes entries both for Meta and for Alt keys. Either remap > your Alt keys to be Meta keys, or remap your Meta keys to > something else (so that Emacs will use the Alt keys for its Meta > modifier). Perhaps you should include an example how to do that? xmodmap can be a bit of a jungle. -- Emanuel Berg - programmer (hire me! CV below) computer projects: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 internet activity: http://home.student.uu.se/embe8573