On 04/11/17 14:23, sellputcall@gmail.com wrote:
> My keyboard's alt key seems to have conked out. Both of them.
> So alt keys in emacs are missing which is a real pain. I dont want to rely on the Esc key all the time.
> 
> Is there a way to map the windows key, which emacs seems to call "s-" to the alt key. This would be very convenient to have until i replace my laptop keyboard.

I do not know of how to do this in Emacs, but you can do it system-wide
with xmodmap and maybe setxkbmap (check the man pages). You can place a
command for this in “~/.xsessionrc” or equivalent.

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