Re: Alt vs Meta - Sun keyboard, redhat linux

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>]

Am 04.01.2011 um 18:12 schrieb chengiz:

> On Jan 3, 5:53 pm, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyba...@Web.DE> wrote:
>> Why do you think the Alt and Meta key modifiers have something to do
>> with MS Losedos?
>
> Where do I think that?

Because you inserted the link to some  "Windows-Keyboard".

> I think the missing piece is what emacs is doing with Alt_L, as in  
> why it is not processing it as A-.
> Here's my xmodmap output:
> shift       Shift_L (0x32),  Shift_R (0x3e)
> lock        Caps_Lock (0x42)
> control     Control_L (0x25),  Control_R (0x6d)
> mod1        Alt_L (0x40),  Alt_R (0x71),  Alt_L (0x7d)
> mod2        Num_Lock (0x4d)
> mod3
> mod4        Meta_L (0x73),  Meta_R (0x74),  Super_L (0x7f),  Hyper_L
> (0x80),  Meta_L (0x9c)
> mod5        Mode_switch (0x5d),  ISO_Level3_Shift (0x7c)
> I cant tell what to put in my xmodmaprc to make sure emacs behaves
> correctly.


Modifier 5 cannot be Meta, Super, and Hyper altogether.

When you launch GNU Emacs with -Q, without any customisation, does it  
still interpret Alt as Meta? If so, then my assumption about the  
parity of the modifiers is wrong and it plays a role that mod1 is Meta  
and mod2 or mod3 is Alt. Then Hyper and maybe Super can follow, but I  
think Mode_switch is more important, since it's the compose key, which  
allows to type ø as o / etc. Num_Lock can be pretty useless.

In case Alt and Meta work correctly in 'emacs -Q', then something in  
your or your system's customisation (init files) is exchanging them.

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   Pete

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